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| 966.1 | | ULYSSE::WADE | | Wed May 20 1992 11:10 | 7 |
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Well, one occasionally sees `of' used as a verb.
As in "I would of phoned ...."
Jim
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| 966.2 | | SMURF::SMURF::BINDER | REM RATAM CONTRA MVNDI MORAS AGO | Wed May 20 1992 11:13 | 9 |
| This usage is only partly "wrong." In colloquial speech, whihc is
appearing more and more frequently on signs and otherwise in print,
ellipsis is common. The fragment could be interpreted as being an
ellipsis of "(There is) someone maybe waiting" in which case "maybe" is
legitimately an adverb.
Dontcha just *love* idle pedantry?
-dick
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| 966.3 | | ULYSSE::WADE | | Wed May 20 1992 11:15 | 10 |
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And there are numerous instances of Mrkn usage of a
noun as a verb, although only one springs to mind:
To increment
I can think of an adjective as a noun if that helps:
Metric
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| 966.4 | | SMURF::SMURF::BINDER | REM RATAM CONTRA MVNDI MORAS AGO | Wed May 20 1992 11:31 | 8 |
| Re: .3
Sorry, "metric" is a legitimate noun - it means, basically, a standard
of measurement such as a benchmark. Its first recorded appearance was
in 1760, in Science Monthly; it predates the metric system and is thus
entitled to a priori consideration.
-dick
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| 966.5 | | SSDEVO::EGGERS | Anybody can fly with an engine. | Wed May 20 1992 14:21 | 4 |
| As we've said before in this conference, any noun can be verbed.
That includes acronyms treated as nouns.
Most recently, "to SERP": "He will SERP on May 29."
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| 966.6 | | JIT081::DIAMOND | bad wiring. That was probably it. Very bad. | Wed May 20 1992 18:09 | 1 |
| Any verb can be reverbed, and any adverb can be deadverbed.
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| 966.7 | | IMTDEV::ROBERTS | Reason, Purpose, Self-esteem | Thu May 21 1992 07:04 | 8 |
| Sorry. I didn't make myself clear in .0. I'll try again.
The "like" in "Are there other words like "maybe" which are incorrectly
used as a verb?" was intended to mean "which are the concatenation of
one or more words forming another word."
Dwayne
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| 966.8 | | MYCRFT::PARODI | John H. Parodi | Thu May 21 1992 08:05 | 4 |
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How about "setup" where "set up" is meant?
JP
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| 966.9 | Setup | ESCROW::ROBERTS | | Thu May 21 1992 09:42 | 5 |
| re .8
Ohhhhhhh, yes! I see that *everywhere*, it seems.
-ellie
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| 966.10 | | IMTDEV::ROBERTS | Reason, Purpose, Self-esteem | Thu May 21 1992 11:09 | 11 |
| RE: .8
"Setup" is a great example.
RE: .7
What the heck did I mean by "concatenation of one or more words"? Let's
make it "concatenation of two or more words" instead.
Dwayne
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| 966.11 | | MYCRFT::PARODI | John H. Parodi | Thu May 21 1992 12:16 | 7 |
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But, but, but...
This is Digital. Clearly, you meant to say "concatenation of zero or
more words."
JP
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| 966.12 | | JIT081::DIAMOND | bad wiring. That was probably it. Very bad. | Thu May 21 1992 19:51 | 2 |
| "Automakers." And there are dozens of others like this, though I
can't think of any rightnow.
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| 966.13 | Thanx, Norman; .12 was alot of fun! | RDVAX::KALIKOW | Partially sage, and rarely on time | Fri May 22 1992 04:22 | 1 |
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| 966.14 | | MYCRFT::PARODI | John H. Parodi | Fri May 22 1992 07:37 | 4 |
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Play back and playback.
JP
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| 966.15 | | STAR::CANTOR | Dave Cantor | Fri May 22 1992 13:36 | 1 |
| Login and log in. Logout and log out.
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| 966.16 | | MYCRFT::PARODI | John H. Parodi | Tue May 26 1992 09:40 | 4 |
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Payoff and pay off.
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| 966.17 | | IMTDEV::ROBERTS | Reason, Purpose, Self-esteem | Tue May 26 1992 09:57 | 4 |
| Stretching a bit,
"She throughout the baby with the bath water."
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| 966.18 | | SSDEVO::EGGERS | Anybody can fly with an engine. | Wed May 27 1992 22:24 | 3 |
| How about
"to rathole"?
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| 966.19 | Ode for N. Diamond, whose .6 begs some sort of response | RDVAX::KALIKOW | Partially sage, and rarely on time | Thu Jun 04 1992 17:10 | 22 |
| I haven't been able to shake the following marvelous phrase from .6:
"Any verb can be reverbed, and any adverb can be deadverbed."
So I've been holding a copy in a scratch file on my Mac for several
weeks. Finally I strained and produced the following, which (I hope
successfully) transfers the onus of responding onto you, you hapless
readers of this doggerel, or perhaps "gerbillerel" may be the proper
form, but maybe it's snot.
Please, someone do better!!
A 'Flexer who verbed with reverb,
did it only to perturb his gerb-
il,
whose adverbs
were turned into deadverbs
so it died after burping a furb-
all.
:-)
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| 966.20 | | JIT081::DIAMOND | bad wiring. That was probably it. Very bad. | Thu Jun 04 1992 18:44 | 3 |
| 'Fraid I can't better that. After all, Mr. Kalikow's poetry is renouned.
(But how's that for oder than ode?)
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| 966.21 | Very oderiferous. Tyvm!! :-) | RDVAX::KALIKOW | Partially sage, and rarely on time | Thu Jun 04 1992 19:23 | 1 |
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