You're right Chris that's exactly how this guy used it. So different from anything I've ever been taught but seemed to work very well for him. I'm still considering how much of that would be helpful for me.

This guy's coach said i was using this jab last time I sparred against the small Nigerian guy but I didn't get tape of it so I'm not sure why I did that. Maybe because he was a shorter southpaw and open to the long left hook which I thought I was throwing - perhaps my really long left hook is unco enough to look like a curved jab

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I met a trainer on the weekend who recommended bending the left wrist a little rather than holding it rigid and using it to get around straight punches a bit - just as an unusual kind of jab.

Where I'm from everyone tries to throw everything straight but he was from the UK and had a very different style to anything I've seen before. Unusual jab but seemed handy for countering.
I thought about this too, not about curving your jab just by bending your wrist, but by curving the path that your jab travels. I think that a stance like the one that Thomas has described would allow the most flexibility when it comes to jabbing. You wouldn't be able to see your opponent's punches coming and you would be in a good position to defend and counter, while the typical stance that you see these days contradicts this and would be a perfect target for a curved jab.