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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You might want to look up "ersatz" before you use it again.[/quote]

Heck, I'll bite!  (More fun to discuss words than an obviously phony original post that people going for like hungry carp.)

"Ersatz" means an artificial substitute, with a connotation of lower or shoddy quality.  It's a German word going back to the 19th century.  I take it you think it should be retired from the language because it was also used to describe items in Germany in World War II, so it is associated with Nazis?  It seems to still be in use, including in the New York Times crossword, http://www.nytcrossword.com/2013/11/1114-13-new-york-times-crossword.html, so I don't think it's been retired from circulation as a Nazi word.

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Who said anything about Nazis?  (But, FWIW, crossword puzzle use wouldn't really be a good marker of linguistic currency).  It was more a question of diction.  Ersatz modifies post.  But the post is real.  And its quality is about par for the course.  Whether the scenario is true is a separate question.  But even if it were fictional, it wouldn't be "ersatz."[/quote]

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