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Re: variant of "Words that should never be uttered or documented..."
Subject:Re: variant of "Words that should never be uttered or documented..." From:Steven Brown <stevenabrown -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 19 Jul 2002 06:25:12 -0700 (PDT)
Matthew,
Good theory, but I don't think it's as simple as
making a transitive/intransitive distinction.
Consider "grow." It's use can be either transitive or
intransitive.
Transitive: The farmers grows corn.
Intransitive: The corn grows.
Without further study, I suspect the misuse of nouns
as verbs is, as someone else said, an attempt to be
perceived as intelligent.
Steven Brown
Documentation Grower
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