8.04 to 10.04 dist upgrade
Dave Woyciesjes
woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net
Thu Sep 2 20:30:15 UTC 2010
Colin Law wrote:
> 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.
You are very correct, and I don't bother myself worrying about it.
I still say that a name for a person that uses twitter should be called
a twit. Or would that be someone who follows someone else's twitter?
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