Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site phri.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!timeinc!phri!roy From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: I input, I inputted, I am inputting? Message-ID: <429@phri.UUCP> Date: Thu, 29-Aug-85 14:19:21 EDT Article-I.D.: phri.429 Posted: Thu Aug 29 14:19:21 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 31-Aug-85 07:40:36 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY) Lines: 17 A recent argument here has prompted me to ask if "input" can legitimately be used as a verb, and if so, how does one conjugate it? Is it transitive or reflexive? Do you input something or does the program into which you are putting stuff do the inputting (or whatever)? If somebody who worked for you gave you a progress report containing the phrase "the user can correct errors after the program has inputted the data" would you accept it? For what it's worth, I just ran spell on the preceeding two paragraphs. The only words flagged were (you guessed it) "inputting" and "inputted". -- Roy Smith System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016