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Grammar Guy: Fight the trend of using nouns, such as 'Skype' and 'Google', as verbs
Savannah Morning News ^
| November 21, 2021
| Curtis Honeycutt
Posted on 12/11/2021 7:38:03 AM PST by DoodleBob
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To: DoodleBob
I’m gonna Xerox this and store my bait on it to go fish.
Really, the guy is an idiot. This is a fairly normal event in language.
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posted on
12/11/2021 8:26:20 AM PST
by
discostu
(Like a dog being shown a card trick )
To: HartleyMBaldwin
Everyone should contact this guy to express support. Or maybe condolences. "Grammar mavens" were big in the 70s and 80s. The internet and texting killed them off, and those battles are over.
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posted on
12/11/2021 8:31:09 AM PST
by
x
To: HartleyMBaldwin
I’ll try to grammar more correctly in the future.
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posted on
12/11/2021 8:33:54 AM PST
by
dblshot
To: Still Thinking
The Peter Principle is when someone is promoted beyond their level of competence. Sometimes, a person is promoted because it's the easiest way to get them out of their current department.
I'm describing a parallel phenomenon where the person sleeps with the boss to advance in their career. They jump to the front of the advancement line.
-PJ
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posted on
12/11/2021 8:34:12 AM PST
by
Political Junkie Too
( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
To: stig
That’s how a mark reaches “genericide” in the trademark world. The owner of the mark is tasked with preventing this from happening to their own marks—a huge undertaking.
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posted on
12/11/2021 8:35:03 AM PST
by
SgtHooper
(If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
To: HartleyMBaldwin
That ship has done sailed.
To: DoodleBob
Until these company names become genericized (think chapstick, kleenex and thermos), I suggest capitalizing these verbified, trademarked words.Tech companies can do a 'cease and desist' if they want but NO, - as a private conservative citizen I owe these folks NOTHING. Genericized way...
And the AP style-book?
It reflects whatever is 'in' with white liberal 'elites' in the print news media...(newspapers)...
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posted on
12/11/2021 8:44:55 AM PST
by
GOPJ
(Black thugs loot Walgreens:"Oh well" Loot Louis Vuitton & white liberal 'elites' scream stop 'em..)
To: DoodleBob
Better to make up new words than misuse existing words. “Woke” anyone?
To: Paal Gulli; dblshot; x
That was pretty much my point. Nouns have been verbed (and verbs nouned) for centuries.
To: DoodleBob
And please stop hanging and dangling infinitives also.
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posted on
12/11/2021 8:47:16 AM PST
by
sport
To: Political Junkie Too
...like Kamaling your way to the top...Kind of like it sucks to compete for a job with a Kamalizing Lewinsky?
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posted on
12/11/2021 8:53:38 AM PST
by
GOPJ
(Black thugs loot Walgreens:"Oh well" Loot Louis Vuitton & white liberal 'elites' scream stop 'em..)
To: DuncanWaring
Task as a verb bothers me to no end.
Its up there with the word worker that is used all the time. Employee or anything else along those lines is seldom heard.
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posted on
12/11/2021 8:54:43 AM PST
by
wally_bert
(I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
To: DoodleBob
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posted on
12/11/2021 8:55:41 AM PST
by
Beckwith
(WOKE ain't no joke!)
To: Alas Babylon!
As one old fart to another, when did we switch from referring to “the world” to “the planet”?
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posted on
12/11/2021 8:56:19 AM PST
by
SauronOfMordor
(A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
To: Buttons12
... “I’m like” and “he was like” for “I said” and “he said.”That bothers me even more than it should. It is used for "I felt" and "I thought," too. I don't even hear the rest of the sentences.
To: HartleyMBaldwin
I’ll send him a Xerox of your post as soon as I can interface with bim. Right now I’m busy networking.
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posted on
12/11/2021 8:57:24 AM PST
by
Roccus
(Prima di ogni altra cosa, siati armati!)
To: DoodleBob
Somebody should tell Grammar Guy that English, unlike Latin, is not a dead language. It changes over time.
He should not be fooled into thinking that sentences won’t be peppered with nouns that have become verbs. The language is salted with such examples. He should drink some tea, sleep on it, and divorce himself from such rigid thinking. I should mail him a letter. Maybe lure him to switch his outlook.
To: DoodleBob
Nero Wolfe did not allow the use of the word “contact” as a verb in his home, as in “I’ll contact you”. He would not like what we have become.
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posted on
12/11/2021 9:23:43 AM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
("There are only men and women."-- George Gilder, Sexual Suicide, 1973)
To: Alas Babylon!
and a newer generation comes up with a totally new stupider vernacular—that they’ll hate.
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posted on
12/11/2021 9:24:46 AM PST
by
DoodleBob
(Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2 )
To: DoodleBob
The vast wisdom of Calvin and Hobbs will never be totally understood.
.
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posted on
12/11/2021 9:25:08 AM PST
by
TLI
(ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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