incent : a big SOTA

Mark A. Mandel mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU
Fri Jan 27 14:24:53 UTC 2006


sagehen writes:

    >>>>>
Perhaps the next apparition will be "substant" to mean impart an added
dimension of reality to sthg.
AM

[I realize my synapses aren't clicking like they useta, but I'm not finding
many nouns ending in / ive / coming forward  to verbize. Trying to define
verbs made out of "genitive," "dative" or "ablative" clearly would create a
helluva snarl: much worse than "truthiness!"]
 <<<<<

"Nosedive"... no, that one doesn't work.

-- Mark
[This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]
TGIF

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