double whammy

[Joel S. Berson]

At 8/29/2014 10:39 PM, Herb Stahlke wrote:

>Could "friendly remind" be intended as a compound verb?

Works for me, but only with a hyphen.  Today I received an email 
message titled "First Overdue Notice", and initially thought I was 
being friendly-reminded -- the "Second Overdue Notice" would be less 
courteous.  But no, aside from identifying the book, the text says 
little more than "Failure to return or renew the materials may result 
in fines." and "This item has been RECALLED.   Please return it immediately."

Perhaps this compound verb will have to be labelled "rare".

Joel

>On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
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> > OK, I know we're up to the wazoo in cites of back-formed verbs.  But =
> > this one (last line below) still struck me as interesting, partly =
> > because it was addressed to linguists by (presumably) linguists (the =
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> > involved; for me, "friendly" is not a possible adverb, so it remains an =
> > adjective even when what it modifies has back-formed itself into a verb. =
> >    (In fact, I've already registered, so I didn't need to be friendly =
> > reminded.)
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