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...all you have to do is to noun a verb, and you've created a new
word.
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Ernie Tamminga
Director, InfoEngineering
Digital Sound Corporation
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Opinions expressed are my own, and not necessarily those of Digital
Sound Corporation
>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Dvorkin [SMTP:dvorkin -at- BOLIX -dot- COM]
>Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 1997 10:30 AM
>To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
>Subject: Re: If you could choose...
>
>At 01:22 PM 7/29/97 -0400, Fred Ridder wrote:
>>When did "send" become a noun??? This usage makes me lurch every
>>time I see it. I most commonly see the terms "message", "submission",
>
>Perhaps at the same time "compare" and "compile" became nouns.
>
>David Dvorkin
>Qualix Group, Inc.
>Boulder Development Ctr.
>mailto:dvorkin -at- bolix -dot- com
>
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