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Re: Pet Peeve: Nouns used as Verbs

Subject: Re: Pet Peeve: Nouns used as Verbs
From: Al Geist <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com>
To: jmalin -at- jmalin -dot- com
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 10:45:21 -0500

When I hear the term "revolver" I flash back to 1966...pre-draft notice, farm chores were my only responsibilities, riding horses all summer, gas was less than 50 cents a gallon....sigh.

Well, back to reality.

AL


Joe Malin wrote:

Yipe!

When I hear the word "revolver", I reach for my culture.

Robotti, Anne (Carlin) wrote:




So, if I were correcting someone, I would not say "that's bad grammar". Instead, I would point out that "Tom designed that API" is more clear than "Tom architected that design."

I'd take out a gun and shoot him dead.

I take grammar very seriously.

(Is it Friday yet?)

Anne




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RE: Pet Peeve: Nouns used as Verbs: From: Robotti, Anne \(Carlin\)
Re: Pet Peeve: Nouns used as Verbs: From: Joe Malin

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