Re: USAGE: names for pillbug/wood louse/woodbug

And Rosta scripsit:

> igkhwob "a specific but randomly-chosen illustrative example,
>         serving the communicative function of a bound variable
>         in some hypothetical proposition" [WHAT?!]
So this is the word for metasyntactic variables such as "foo" and "John Doe"?

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