Unuses

[Amorelli]

Looks like an overdose of 'Newspeak' (cf. George Orwell's '1984', first
published in 1949!), although the Author's imagination did not extend to
rendering 'sight' semi(?)-phonetically.
M.I.Amorelli
Faculties of Law and Economics,
University of Sassari
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Keer" <edkeer at YAHOO.COM>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 9:56 PM
Subject: Unuses


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> I have a friend who works at a well known news
> organization. He says that they use "unsite" and
> "unhave" as verbs in written communications about
> stories:
>
> "Unhave India-Tsunami, pls resend." means "I don't
> have the India-Tsunami story, please resend it."
>
> "Unsite" means something like, "I don't see..."
>
> I don't think anyone ever uses them when speaking, but
> these sound awful to me. Has anyone ever talked about
> this?
>
> Ed
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