8.04 to 10.04 dist upgrade

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Thu Sep 2 20:09:17 UTC 2010


On 2 September 2010 16:58, Dave Woyciesjes <woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Basil Chupin wrote:
>...
>        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.

You can peeve away as much as you like, but individuals cannot control
the development of languages.  A large percentage  of the worlds
population (well a significant percentage anyway) (or  enough at
least) have decided that google is a verb, so that is what it is.

Colin




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