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  1. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!auvm!UKCC.UKY.EDU!BGRISSOM
  3. Message-ID: <WORDS-L%93012521185649@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
  4. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
  5. Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:08:39 EST
  6. Sender:       English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
  7. From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
  8. Subject:      Calvin and Hobbes (1/25)
  9. Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu
  10. Lines: 9
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  12. "I like to verb words."
  13. "What?"
  14. "I take nouns and adjectives and use them as verbs.  Remember when
  15.  'access' was a thing?  Now it's something you *do*.  It got verbed."
  16. "Verbing weirds language."
  17. "Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding."
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  19.  
  20. --brad
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