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Augh | Friday, 2005 April 22 - 12:53 am |
I just have to comment on this. A headline from the New York Times: "Advanced Micro Aims to Out-Elegant Intel in Chip Race". That's right, the venerable New York Times has now apparently decided that "elegant" is a verb. "What did you do today? Oh, I eleganted. Eleganting is all the rage. For a while I thought I might be tackying, even sometimes grotesquing. But now I'm definitely opulenting." The addition of the "out-" prefix just makes it all the worse. |
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Comment #1 from Crouching Hamster (Guest) 2005 Apr 22 - 1:12 am : # |
I didn't even know that a chip race COULD be elegant. |
Comment #2 from Steve (Guest) 2005 Apr 22 - 2:59 pm : # |
Is out-eleganting anything like out-sourcing? 'Cause I don't always fell like being that elegant, and if I could get somebody else to do my eleganting for me, well, that would just be great. |
Comment #3 from Scott H (Guest) 2005 Apr 23 - 9:59 am : # |
Is verbing an adjective better, worse or the same as verbing a noun on your scale of pet-peeves ? Of course "verbing" itself is a verbed noun. Is it better to adjectivize ( a new verbed noun) a noun like "verb" to verbed ? Is it irony that verb is a noun ? |