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To: bitt

Don't you like acronyms that are made into nouns that are made into verbs?


31 posted on 09/28/2004 8:19:37 PM PDT by steve86
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To: BearWash

'Don't you like acronyms that are made into nouns that are made into verbs?'

I prefer straight-forward info like:

"this guy was, like, flying, somewhere, and like, got hurt, where he got hurt in the, like, EYE".

If that is not available, then of course, like you, I prefer acronyms that are made into nouns that are made into verbs.


64 posted on 09/28/2004 8:26:54 PM PDT by bitt (Security Mom for Bush)
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To: BearWash
Don't you like acronyms that are made into nouns that are made into verbs?

Yes, when it makes sense. It's All-American (and in a way, All-English), as opposed to France where they have a government-controlled language and levy fines if official communications stray from the officially condoned "pure" French language.

If doublespeak is ever imposed globally it won't make much headway in the USA!

95 posted on 09/28/2004 8:39:47 PM PDT by Weirdad (A Free Republic, not a "democracy" (mob rule))
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To: BearWash
Don't you like acronyms that are made into nouns that are made into verbs?

Maybe it fubar'd you but I radared it's meaning right away.

100 posted on 09/28/2004 8:40:53 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Don't argue with an idiot; people watching may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: BearWash
Verbing nouns is cool. But cooler yet is nouning a verb. Meltage. Now that is cool. But even cooler still, adjectiving nouned verbs. Meltagness. Although, by far the coolest of all would be culturally stereotyped adjective nouned verbs. Meltagenessskiowitz.
327 posted on 09/29/2004 12:31:10 AM PDT by raygun
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To: BearWash
"Don't you like acronyms that are made into nouns that are made into verbs?"

Acronyms That Are Made Into Nouns That Are Made Into Verbs = ATAMINTAMIVs.

Of course, there are several examples of atamintamivs not only in this thread, but most newscasts these days.

Indeed, it seems that nearly every human language is becoming atamintamivated.

Even this post is a showcase of atamintamivation!

418 posted on 09/29/2004 3:28:50 AM PDT by Imal (Today, Iraqis are enjoying the kind of freedom Americans haven't had in over a century.)
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