Re: verb to noun: cool or incorrect?

Subject: Re: verb to noun: cool or incorrect?
From: Chris Morton <chris -at- isntthatwrite -dot- com>
To: "techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 15:32:12 -0400

A rad reply, Lin. ð It was awesome!

So much writing these days just sucks. Or as POTUS says in his very
limited, Dick & Jane vocabulary, "It's bad...very bad."

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On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 2:19 PM Lin Laurie <linlaurie1 -at- hotmail -dot- com> wrote:

> If I trace my roots on suss out, it goes back about 35 years ago to an
> English boyfriend who imported it to the US when he came over for college.
>
> Language is constantly growing and developing as we invent new things,
> embrace new cultures, businesses come up with their own jargon, and our
> children come up with new slang. I think all we can do is go with the flow,
> fight when we can, but pick our battles wisely, lest we be the grumpy ol'
> grammar cop in the corner grumbling about the good old days when the
> dictionary only contained a thousand words or so.
>
> IMHO
>
> Lin
>
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> LOL. So after hearing (and even using) âto suss outâ for the past several
> decades, I stumbled onto one possible source being âto assessâ. I canât
> remember exactly what drew the connection.
>
> Made me chuckle.
>
> -T
>
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 10:23 Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > Some of it is "in-our-office" abbreviations, spoken but not usually
> > written. I was asked by a government clerk, "Wassa soash?"
> >
> >
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