it's not the verbing that weirds words,

Mar 24, 2005 12:02

I would just like to definitively state that I am in favor of verbal neologisms - Googling, IM-ing, etc. They are all awesome. Without verbing, we have to use those smarmy and insinuating 'helper verbs' far too often, and our sentences are long and tedious. I like instant semantic gratification, pow-snap! I realize that by doing so, I am going ( Read more... )

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jamminrants March 24 2005, 12:49:23 UTC
My thought on communication is that it is more important that the recipient of any communication understands what you're trying to say, rather than to be grammatically correct. So for that reason, I totally agree. If I know what "Googling" means, then you've succeeded in communicating.

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anneth March 26 2005, 08:50:18 UTC
A search for "kitty" turns up nothing, but a search for "flux capacitor" turns up an entire comic. We can sexy!

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