favorited?

Alice Faber faber at HASKINS.YALE.EDU
Mon Jan 29 18:49:04 UTC 2007


Mark A. Mandel wrote:
> Larry wrote:
>     >>>>>
>
> Yes, "friend" as a verb, sponsored by facebook.com, is definitely in
> the permanent lexicon, at least temporarily.  It started popping up
> in my students' New Word Journals 3 years ago, and now they now it's
> already too established to slip by me. (Nice example, because it's
> clearly different from the established "befriend".) "Favorite" and
> "street" as verbs are certainly fresher.
>
>  <<<<<
>
> I've never used facebook, but "friend" in this sense seems to be standard on
> LiveJournal: 'add someone to your Friends list'.

Absolutely standard, though some LJ'ers use bare "add" in the same sense.

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