RE: I just heard another one

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

Ron Hearn wrote: 

> I have heard "efforting" more and more in the media e.g. "We are
> efforting to contact him..."

That's an ugly one, and completely unnecessary. What's wrong with "attempting," "striving," or "trying"?
 
> Another noun-to-verb I am seeing in the documents I edit is
> "transacting" (to perform a transaction).

I'm afraid you're off base on that one, Ron. "Transact" has been a perfectly good verb with fine, upstanding Latin roots for hundreds of years. Here's the Merriam-Webster entry: 


Main Entry:
    transÂact 
Pronunciation:
    \tran-Ëzakt, tran(t)-Ësakt\ 
Function:
    verb 
Etymology:
    Latin transactus, past participle of transigere to drive through, complete, transact, from trans- + agere to drive, do â more at agent
Date:
    circa 1585

intransitive verb : to carry on business transitive verb 1 : to carry to completion <transact a sale> 2 : to carry on the operation or management of : do <transact business>

Richard


Richard G. Combs
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