Lionized

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon Aug 15 17:32:04 UTC 2011


On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> the recent release of Lion, the new Mac OS, has resulted in a slew of uses of "lionization." What will be interesting is if the word catches on in regular parlance or undergoes a shift in meaning.
>

I'm a Mac-user, a fanboi, even, but, God! I hope that any connection
of _lionize_ with the Lion OS quickly dies out!

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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