favorited?

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:06 PM -0500 1/28/07, Charles Doyle wrote:
>I recently got an email from "FaceBook," with the information that
>somebody had "friended" me.  Last night on "Law & Order, CI" (a
>rerun, I believe) the police had to "street" (i.e., 'set free') a
>suspect because of insufficient evidence of criminality.
>
>It goes on . . . .
>
>--Charlie

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.

LH

>  >Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 11:45:47 -0500
>>From: David Bergdahl <dlbrgdhl at GMAIL.COM>
>>Subject: favorited?
>>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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>>
>>A friend sent me a Dilbert video from YouTube.  At the bottom, this line
>>appeared:
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>>Views: 10,613     Comments: 5     Favorited: 47 times
>>___________________________________
>>David Bergdahl
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