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From: sakkinen@jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: question about the title of the group....
Message-ID: <1991May3.114629.12763@jyu.fi>
Date: 3 May 91 11:46:29 GMT
References: <1991May1.014252.11702@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Reply-To: sakkinen@jytko.jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen)
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
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In article <1991May1.014252.11702@bellcore.bellcore.com> mo@bellcore.com (Michael O'Dell) writes:
>Question - is the title of this group a noun or a verb?

The founding fathers certainly had a noun in mind,
but today - as you probably have noted - it's about a half of each.
Don't they say that it's a current American fashion "to verb"
every second noun that wasn't also a verb already?

Markku Sakkinen
Department of Computer Science and Information Systems
University of Jyvaskyla (a's with umlauts)
PL 35
SF-40351 Jyvaskyla (umlauts again)
Finland
          SAKKINEN@FINJYU.bitnet (alternative network address)