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Dear Max: I got out the October Discover and looked at the article again. A few astronomers interested in comet orbits think a group of them may have been caused to head for us by an object in the Oort cloud five times the size of Jupiter 2 trillion miles away that orbits Sun once in five million years. Another NASA telescope to be launched next July may find it.
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A planet 5 times bigger than Jupiter would really be something to see, by Jove!
Gee, just like the sun!
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Dear Max - never have I seen "gist" verbed, much less made transitive.
Is this common usage among Zildians, or just among the uniquely gifted?
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"Gee, just like the sun!" This object, though huge is not hot enough to emit any light, and is so far away from any source of light that it is exceedingly dim. And it is moving so very slowly that photographs at six month intervals to use parallax to pick it out by its shift in position so far have not found it.
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>Maverick astronomers ...
He gets around doesn't he?
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Thanks Max! Although I recognize that many of us are not disposed to being noun-verbers (nouns-verber?), I do like the result of verbificating "gist". I also admire the candor of the architectifiers of the software you describe.
Is there another word out there that would serve in the place of the verbed "gist"?
p.s. - in writing this post, my fingers insisted on typying "noun-berber" twice - which brought to mind images of the pack of us, mounted on our dromedaries, lugging our nouns 'cross the desert wastes, off to trade with the verb-Tuaregs at Conjunction Junction
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Is there another word out there that would serve in the place of the verbed "gist"?
synopsize? summarize?
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