I think he maintained that "verbing weirds language."
--J
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Alex Melnick <aemelnick_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- Joy McCann <joy.mccann_at_gmail.com <joy.mccann%40gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> > 1) Is this our Susan C?--looks like her. As I recall, she was a
> > violinist,
> > just like DZ.
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Crawford_%28Professor%29
>
> Search her blog for "Santa Monica" and you get:
>
> >>As for me, I'm in LA for an ICANN board retreat. Oddly (only for
> me), we're meeting across the street from my old high school, Santa
> Monica HS ("Home of the Vikings"). In my day, we had the highest
> truancy rate in the nation — an open campus, a few blocks from the
> beach. My year had more than 900 people in it. Emilio Estevez was in
> my class and was voted "Prettiest Hair" our senior year. I spent most
> of the time in the band room. This was before personal computers. Now
> the kids who go there are probablybeyond personal computers — it's all
> texting, all the time.<<
>
> http://scrawford.net/blog/optimizing-on-billing/630/
>
> So, I'd say there's about a 99% chance that's the Susan Crawford we
> knew.
>
> > (Today I public-domain;
> > yesterday, I
> > public-domained; many times, I have pubic-domained.)
>
> Who was it who said that the good thing about English is that it's so
> easy "to verb a noun"? Keith? Or was he quoting?
>
> Alex Melnick
> aemelnick_at_yahoo.com <aemelnick%40yahoo.com> --
> http://www.geocities.com/alexm_94109
>
>
>
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