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Kurtaceous

Kurtaceous is a word to address a prevalent kind of email, text or social media post that is sent to a group. Most groups have guidelines about subject matter that must be adhered to, for example I belong to the Arizona New Mexico Birdlist and proper etiquette is to only post messages about birds or birding in Arizona or New Mexico, messages about your recent trip to Texas or Africa are frowned upon and in most cases looked upon as simply bragadocious emails. And political messages about cats killing birds or ornithologists collecting birds are examples of topics that have been banned from discussion! An example of a kurtaceous post is after someone posts they saw a rare Groove-billed Ani in Tucson a reply is "Yeah Groove-billed Anis are great, I just saw several on my trip to the rio grande valley last week" this reply has zero to do with the original post groove-billed Ani is rare in Arizona, but common in south Texas, the group member just wants you to know they were in Texas birding last week.

That social media post was kurtaceous.

Bragadocious is different, kurtaceous is subtle and concealed under a vague notion that the content is related when it is not.

by Kurtrad April 18, 2025