8.04 to 10.04 dist upgrade

Dave Woyciesjes woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net
Thu Sep 2 20:42:23 UTC 2010


Billie Walsh wrote:
> On 09/02/2010 03:30 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
>> 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?
>>
>>    
> 
> That's a Tweety
> 

That would not be fair to the cute little yellow cartoon bird....

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