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OP is, I think, some cheesehead from Green Bay.
Actually, I have no idea. I was reading an article and saw the quotation and did not like the way he tried to verb a fine noun. Only to find out that it already appears as both a vt and a vi in some dictionary (tsuwm did not cite the dictionary if I remember correctly.)
But I still say:
AAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH
TEd
It just shows that the language is still robust, despite the misguided efforts of those who would love it to death.
I .. did not like the way he tried to verb a fine noun
I regret that I have to preface this remark by assuring you that my question is sincere but, is the pot calling the kettle black when you denounce "demagog this" for "verbing a noun"?
Or perhaps "verb" can be "verbed", I really don't know.
BTW I have to confess that I rather fancy "demagog this". I was too timid to express my honest opinion at the outset, but I see now that I can do myself no additional harm by being honest. That is the one advantage of being everyone's pet pariah around here.
If you are damned when you agree, can you be doubly damned when you disagree? [For that matter, when you are damned for being agreeable, can you be doubly damned for being disagreeable?]
Other polysyllabic words have become more familiar in their abbreviated form than in their correct form, notably, "high tech" for "high technology".
If the elected official had said something like "This issue is too important to become embroiled in demagoguery", no-one reading his remarks would have understood what he meant. What is more, no-one would have read his remarks at all because he never would have been quoted.
I believe the elected official had something very important to say and I admire his savvy in finding a way to say it which would capture the attention of the press.
High principles are better expressed in the press than in a vaccuum of oratorical correctness.
Oh, not so outrageous, really, Milo, if you'd been reading the program. You haven't seen the PMs where that in question has threatened to leave if that in question couldn't force "the Carpals" to leave. Anyway here's something public from a while back, a thread with most of the alter-personalities, so you can catch up on your history.
http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=wordplay&Number=137085
De nada.
Merry Christmas
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edit: More than one non-"Carpal" has left this thread because of that/those in question. The Plutachi had private-messaged many people to say *their* mission was to force the "Carpals" to leave. Looks like it backfired, only hurting some newcomers.
Merry Christmas, dear ASp?
I'm sure we could all do a lot of catching up on past transgressions, if there was any current value in it.
In the spirit of the season, ASp, and with high hopes of a more amicable new year, for both of us, I wish you "Merry Christmas". And to Faldage as well.
I confess that I am tempted to respond to your characterization of "that in question's" PMs, but I guess it's time for me to practice what I preach.
"That in question" will do his level best to leave no questions in your mind.
Sure, it's fine and dandy for Anastrophic and Faldage and Plutarch to say "Merry Christmas" and chit chat about spreading good will, but what about the little children who visit the Birmingham Public Library where the word "Christmas" is taboo.
Hear the sordid details in "Miscellany" coming soon.
Well, Lusty Yule to all the little kiddies in Birmingham.
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