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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: "Lil Matthew" <lil_matthew -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 13:27:02 +0000


This type of conversion is called Verbing. As in 'Verbing weirds language'.
Or at least it is by Calvin and Hobbes.

but both Mathew and I were talking about the effect transitivity had on noun-to-verb conversions, not the definitions for intransitive and transitive. ;-)








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