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On 01/31/07 10:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 07:52:55AM -0500, Max Hyre wrote:
>> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
>>> The real
>>> interesting one to me is the battle Adobe has going to prevent
>>> "photoshop" from becoming a synonym for "edit a photograph" or for an
>>> edited photograph.
>> It's already been, you should pardon the expression, ``verbed''. As
>> in ``Was that photoshopped?'' when expressing doubt as to the
>> authenticity of an image.
>
> No pardon needed. In English, any noun can be verbed. But I have a
> preverence for not verbing nouns unnecessarily.
Mild chortle. You just unnecessarily verbed the noun "verb".
The "correct" way to write it would be:
However, I have a preference for turning verbs into nouns only
when necessary.
> Maybe that's my Dutch
> heritage.
You've been on geek-English lists too long, I think.
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