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Our language changes constantly. Definitions shift. Old terms become obsolete while new ones erupt constantly into consciousness. Here is tonight's observation: nouns become verbs.
Remember when input was something you offered instead of something you did? You know, you'd enter input into a computer. I call this the "verbification of nouns®."
Our latest bulletin (http://www.scca.org/news/tech/prorally/PROB051903-zoneaccess.pdf) contains at least three new examples of this phenomenon: "waivered," "wristbanded," and "hard carded."
The scariest part of this musing ("a-" or not) little post is that I think I actually understood what they were trying to say!
waivered: the person signed a waiver
wristbanded: the person was issued a wristband
hard carded: the person was confirmed to be of legal drinking age
Let the verbification continue!
Remember when input was something you offered instead of something you did? You know, you'd enter input into a computer. I call this the "verbification of nouns®."
Our latest bulletin (http://www.scca.org/news/tech/prorally/PROB051903-zoneaccess.pdf) contains at least three new examples of this phenomenon: "waivered," "wristbanded," and "hard carded."
The scariest part of this musing ("a-" or not) little post is that I think I actually understood what they were trying to say!
waivered: the person signed a waiver
wristbanded: the person was issued a wristband
hard carded: the person was confirmed to be of legal drinking age
Let the verbification continue!