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re: variant of "Words that should never be uttered or documented..."
Subject:re: variant of "Words that should never be uttered or documented..." From:Sean Hower <hokumhome -at- freehomepage -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 19 Jul 2002 15:52:55 -0700 (PDT)
Matthew Donovan wrote:
My linguistics, semantics, grammar, whatever are long gone, but isn't this about transitive and intransitive verbs ?
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Man, that sounds really familiar. I vaguely remember something about differences in changes in transative and intransative verbs.....but I can't remember what it was. When I get home I'll have to crack open my historical linguistics books and have a look. I'll get back later if I find something out.....
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Bruce Byfield wrote:
Unusual uses are often ugly and sometimes funny. However, don't forget
that they can also be creative coinings.
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I totally aggree (as I mentioned the same thing in an earlier post). I find it ironic that I am complaining about linguistic innovation with vocabularly when I am a staunch supporter of descriptive grammar......heheheh. I suppose I should overcome my gut reaction to particularly "creative" innovations (a reaction which is quite human mind you) and just accept it as part of life.....mmmm, but that might be too open minded. :-)
"Whatever you do, do NOT let your editorial decisions be made by the squiggly spell-checking lines in Word!" ~Keith Cronin, Techwr-l irritant ;-)
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