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
------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
More information about the Ads-l
mailing list