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From: chip@t4test.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.cooks
Subject: Re: Zap!
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Date: Mon, 31-Dec-84 18:07:13 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 31 18:07:13 1984
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Summary: language flame

> From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (Gordon A. Moffett)
> Date: 30 Dec 84 05:08:16 GMT
> 
> But formalists are still using the verb "microwave", though I think
> it sounds cumbersome.  Then again, "any noun can be verbed."

While some might claim that "any noun can be verbed", I maintain
that all generalizations are bad.

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Chip Rosenthal, Intel/Santa Clara
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