Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 4th Nov 2006 21:39 UTC
"I am a linguist by training. Long before I delved into free software and was snagged by the quagmire of marketing, I pondered the marvels of morphology, the grimness of grammar and the splendor of semantics. It is only natural then that my wrangling criticism of industry-speak, in both technical and literary modes, is informed by ingrained linguistic sensibilities, descriptive and proscriptive. Given my background, I find it vexing when open source is used as a verb."
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2006-01-24
Funny..
"The term nonstandard was introduced by linguists and lexicographers to describe usages and language varieties that had previously been labeled with terms such as vulgar and illiterate."
http://www.answers.com/nonstandard
Edit; Btw, I can't understand why he even cares that some people use the word as a verb? If it's meant to be it will be, let people use the language as they please. However, I'm guilty of correcting people myself sometimes, even if it's just grammatically corrections, and yes, i know there's too many commas in this sentence.
Edited 2006-11-05 08:43