Robin Shannon wrote
Is the word strawman/strawhorse argument a purely wikimedia thing, because i had never heard the phrase before i subscribed to these lists?
I was unfamiliar before my UseNet years, and assumed it (strawman) was an artefact of North American college education (I presume you're in Australia; I'm in the UK). A little googling on this reinforces the impression that this is standard in Composition 101 or suchlike, which hasn't crossed the Atlantic. Of course we Brits are second to none at actually doing this; but we tend to call it "putting words into people's mouths".
Charles