Re: Have you ever felt the need to create a new word?

Subject: Re: Have you ever felt the need to create a new word?
From: "Paul Pehrson" <paulpehrson -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: hokumhome -at- freehomepage -dot- com
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 09:27:16 -0600

On 4/25/06, Sean Hower <hokumhome -at- freehomepage -dot- com> wrote:
> > Surag R reported:
> > In one of my projects, there was a term "statused" in the UI.
> The problem with this example is that someone can guess at the meaning.
> Sure, someone might look at it and think, "oh, they're using it as a verb"
> but I seriously doubt anyone would look at it and simply not know what it
> means.

I'll admit it: I have absolutley no idea what the word "statused"
means. Not even a guess.

However, maybe I could guess at it if I saw it in context.

But I guess I'm the dumb one, because I simply don't know what it
means. I wonder if I'm the only one.

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