8.04 to 10.04 dist upgrade

Dave Woyciesjes woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net
Thu Sep 2 17:06:07 UTC 2010


Michael Pavling wrote:
> On 2 September 2010 16:58, Dave Woyciesjes <woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>> Hmmmm...so you "goggled" and not "googled"? :-)
>>>
>>        Which brings up a peeve of mine. I do not agree with "Google" being a
>> verb. It's a name, a pronoun. I believe it should be "search using
>> Google" or somesuch variant.
> 
> pronoun != "proper noun"

	Yeah, I never did all that great in English class... 'Twas the right 
time of day to take a nap.

> I take it you wouldn't condone someone hoovering their carpets either? :-/

	"Hoovering", using Hoover as a verb is just something I chalked up to 
the British being weird.

> Language (particularly English) evolves... whether we agree with it or not.
> 

Yep. Now if we could get some people's minds to evolve as well...

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