to video chat

[Ronald Butters]

This word should be hyphenated: "video-chat"!


On Feb 29, 2012, at 9:02 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/apps-apes-orangutans-using-ipads-paint-video-chat-174457692.html
> :
>
> "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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