Saturday, May 13, 2006

Verb This!

Jesse Sheidlower has a nice piece on Slate.com, documenting one man's lobbying efforts to include concept as a verb in the next edition of the Merriam-Webster dictionary.

If you want to harsh on the misguided lobbyist directly, and well you should, visit his blog.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

http://www.sonjamueller.org/

bjkeefe said...

Thanks, anon. That's one of the two or three best uses of Flash that I have ever seen. Some fairly nice photos, too, although it's hard to appreciate them in such a small format.

Anonymous said...

get used to it! verbing has permanented itself into our culture. although i dont know why one would want to use "concept" when both "conceptualize" and "conceptify" are more fun to say.

bjkeefe said...

Oooo. "Conceptify." Nice!

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