"migrate", v.tr., a sort-of untracked sense

[Arnold Zwicky]

On May 11, 2012, at 8:20 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:

> I just received a notice that my e-mail account is about to be deleted, and while I first took this to be one of the many many spam warnings I regularly receive along these lines, I realized this was an actual one, but no need to panic, because my account, as they reminded me, "has been migrated" to a different sort of account as part of a mass migration event of this kind that we're undergoing.

some discussion here:

http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/annals-of-causativization/

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