transitive interfere

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Jul 3, 2008, at 8:32 PM, James Harbeck wrote:

> Just seen on a Facebook application:
>
> Adblock Plus (Firefox add-on) can interfere application loading.
>
> This is fairly prominent text on an application loading page that is
> otherwise in standard English. I don't think I've seen "interfere"
> without "with" like this before.

you can google up some examples of "interfere operation" and no doubt
others.  more transitivization by preposition omission.

arnold

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