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On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 21:44:11 -0000 (UTC), William Unruh
wrote: On 2019-02-18, Ken Blake wrote: On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 11:15:26 -0600, Rene Lamontagne wrote: On 02/18/2019 11:01 AM, wrote: On 18-Feb-2019, Rene Lamontagne wrote: Worse, here is my RESPONSE to MIke's privacy rant: A. Mike essentially makes the claim that I have to DEFEND my right to privacy. B. I respond, strongly, with cites, that this is a common ignorant statement. C. When I ask Mike to provide cites backing up his ignorant claim, he can't. Let's state the super obvious things he 1. Nobody has to defend their right to privacy. 2. If you (Paul or Mike) want to claim otherwise, then back it up with cites. 3. Rest assured, I already provided Mike with cites proving my point of view. What the hell are cites? References. Thanks, I was mistaking it for sites. As far as I'm concerned, you are right, and the original post with the word "cites" is wrong. "Cite" is a verb, not a noun. The noun is "citation." I'm sure I'm going to get arguments about this, telling me I'm an old fuddy-duddy and I'm behind the times. So I'll repeat my first five words in the paragraph above: "as far as I'm concerned." English has the ability of making verbs into nouns. I knew I would get an argument. Maybe more are coming. You are certainly right. There are many, many examples of that. Some of those have been around for a long time. Some of them started very recently. Making nouns out of verbs is only one example of the way English changes. It also makes verbs out of nouns, and changes in many other ways. Like all languages, English changes over the years. Today's English isn't the same as Shakespeare's, and Shakespeare's wasn't the same as Chaucer's. And Italian isn't the same as Latin. I'm well aware of that. It's the nature of language. I can't object to that; it's a fact of life. But I can object to it's happening very quickly. To my way of thinking, because of television and the Internet, these days it happens too quickly, much more quickly than it used to. Too quickly, to me, means that it's very difficult for everyone to keep up with it, and the result is that communication is impeded. So wherever possible, I personally avoid those "nouns" made of verbs. I say (and write) "clean installation, " not "clean install," "invitation" not "invite," "citation" not "cite," and many other examples that don't spring to the mind at the moment. I know. I'm an old fuddy-duddy and I'm behind the times. So be it. There's an office complex near my home that has a sign in front of it: "If you officed here, you'd be home now." Besides making up the verb "office" from the noun "office," the sign makes no sense. |
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