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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga to VideoTape - Can it be done?
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Date: 16 Dec 90 20:42:37 GMT
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In <41496@ut-emx.uucp>, lshaw@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (logan shaw) writes:
>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?  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)

Boy, you sure truthed that one!

-larry

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