Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!west!male!jethro!exodus!appserv!sun!amdcad!dgcad!dg-rtp!farmhand!cole From: cole@farmhand.rtp.dg.com (Bill Cole) Newsgroups: comp.object Subject: Re: question about the title of the group.... Message-ID: <1991May3.183019.21672@dg-rtp.dg.com> Date: 3 May 91 18:30:19 GMT References: <1991May1.014252.11702@bellcore.bellcore.com> <1991May3.114629.12763@jyu.fi> Sender: cole@farmhand (Bill Cole) Organization: Data General Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC Lines: 13 |>> Question - is the title of this group a noun or a verb? Answer: Yes |> 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? Hey, when you're as poorly educated as most Americans, you've got to make 'em up as you go, you know. You know, play with what yuh got. /Bill And you thought basketball players knew all the answers.