[lit-ideas] Re: curious phenomenon

  • From: "Paul Stone" <pastone@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 11:44:26 -0500

On 12/7/06, JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx <JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx> wrote:

 I see that "favorite" has in my internet absence become an infinitive
verb.  Note that this video was not favored 919 times, but "favorited".  The
morphing of language is always so curious...


Yesterday I heard someone use "positive" as a noun. "We have to look at it
as a positive."
Blech!

barely hanging on,
p

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