to video chat

[Jonathan Lighter]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/apps-apes-orangutans-using-ipads-paint-video-chat-174457692.html
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"Orangutans using iPads to paint and video chat with other apes"

I don't care if it's in OED or not. We should take notice of evolutionary
leaps regardless.

But more seriously, this kind of construction may require the formulation
of a new syntactic, rather than lexical, rule to describe it.
(Maybe someone has alread done so. In that case, we should simply celebrate
the apes' achievement and future buying power.)

JL

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