drop

[Lynne Murphy]

A blog-reader emailed me today to ask whether this sentence was good in
general American English (or whether it's geekspeak):

'Mozilla dropped the Firefox 4 release candidate for developers yesterday,
but as of this afternoon the release candidate is available for everyone to
download and test out. '
From:
<http://lifehacker.com/#!5780393/firefox-4-release-candidate-now-available-to-everyone>

Is this a basketball metaphor? Is it marketing jargon or geek speak? Does
it require less processing effort for you than for me? :)

Best,
Lynne




Dr M Lynne Murphy
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics
Director of English Language and Linguistics
School of English
Arts B348
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QN

phone: +44-(0)1273-678844
http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com

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