Backread vs Backroad - What's the difference?
backread | backroad |
(Internet, slang, especially in IRC) To catch up on an ongoing conversation, by reading previous portions one was not present for.
To interpret what one has read previously in the light of later experience or knowledge
* 1980 , Diana Hume George, Blake and Freud
* 2001 , Andrew Rippin, Muslims: their religious beliefs and practices
(backread)
As a verb backread
is to catch up on an ongoing conversation, by reading previous portions one was not present for.As a noun backroad is
an alternative spelling of lang=en.backread
English
Verb
- Thereafter, Freud was obliged not only to expand but to backread that expansion into all that came before.
- What must be recognized is the nature of the source material in which one sees a theological/ideological backreading of history.