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Verbing Weirds Google
MoNickels writes "Back in January, the American Dialect Society voted the neologism "to google" as the most useful word of 2002. Now bring on the lawyers! Google's have sent a cease-and-desist letter to Paul McFedries, creator of the famous Word Spy site, demanding he remove google as a verb from his lexicon, or else. Frank Abate, an American editor for the Oxford English Dictionary, points out, however, that you can't claim proprietary rights to a verb." Update: 02/26 03:19 GMT by T : MoNickels writes with an update: "Frank Abate is not
an editor of the OED, but he is a former editor of the New Oxford
American Dictionary, both published by Oxford University Press." Thanks for the amendment!
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For the third time in a row, I have failed to secure thr0d ps1t.
It is with great shame that I hang up my mttpg for the evening.
Tomorrow is another day, however, and I shall not fail again!
This Google nonsense is all well and good, but why isn't Slashdot reporting the murder of DonkPunch, one of its longtime members, by FreeBSD users? Surely Slashdot's commitment to open source software cannot be so zealous as to turn a blind eye to such a horrific crime. The fate of Mr. Punch should serve as a lesson to us all: FreeBSD users are bloodthirsty zealots who will lure unsuspecting people in and then kill them off.
It's the truth, but don't expect to see it reported on Slashdot.
Off Topic but...
;o)
Timothy,
Is posting to Slashdot your full time job??
"Kleenexes"
Well, if you believe Latin is truly dead and not merely resting, you're correct. OTOH, if you believe that Latin is still evolving...
Kleenex looks like it should either be a feminine
third declension noun, like "codex" becomes "codices"
kleenex, kleenicis, kleenici
or masculine, like rex
kleenex, kleenegis, kleenegi
And before anyone jumps down my throat about it, the plural of thermos is thermoi. (Greek, not Latin).
-fb Everything not expressly forbidden is now mandatory.
Why don't we just KY-jelly that asshole, slip on a Trojan and ummm... nevermind.
It's not a she, its a he.
-$$$$$exyGuy
...you would end up in Syberia (if you were lucky) for using "smurf" as a verb. Papa Smurf Rules there!
jar.
I was sitting in my parent's basement googling for some pr0n at hastalavista, with my box of kleenex at the ready. I surfed over to s-example.com and got spammed by popups, and just as I was ready to go postal, I bumped my x windows unix 686 PC and knocked over a bunch of qtips I had bought at the 711. Damn it, I thought, I'm going back to xeroxing polaroids.