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From: lshaw@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (logan shaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga to VideoTape - Can it be done?
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Date: 16 Dec 90 19:36:58 GMT
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In article <4130@mindlink.UUCP> a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs) writes:

>In article <6309@crash.cts.com> dak@pro-graphics.cts.com
>(DAK Productions) writes:
>>It is interesting that the "genloc" is needed to output video. Simply because
>                                                  ^^^^^^
>>there is no such device as a genloc. Genloc is a VERB not a NOUN.

>While we're picking grammatical nits, in my opinion (and still,
>thankfully, that of a number of dictionaries), "output" is a NOUN
>not a VERB.  It's but one example of the growing tendency to force
>nouns into service as verbs because either people think it sounds
>like cool computer jargon or they're unable to think of a proper
>word.

Don't you know that there isn't a single word in the English language
that can't be verbed?  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)

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