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From: gilbert@hci.hw.ac.uk (Gilbert Cockton)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,sci.lang
Subject: Re: words order in English and Japanese
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Date: 29 Jan 88 11:47:30 GMT
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In article <3579@bcsaic.UUCP> rwojcik@bcsaic.UUCP (Rick Wojcik) writes:
>We can also take nouns into verbs, as in "Your statement impacted our report"
>and "They proxmired us again".  Some languages appear to tolerate this
>kind of functional shift more freely than English does.

Namely American English!  The arbitrary conversions of nouns to verbs
is more a feature of American than British English.  The vocabulary of
the latter is sufficiently rich to not require the spawning of ugly
neologisms :-)  (though British Trade Unionese does verbify a lot)

.. and yes, I *DID* split that infinitive!
-- 
Gilbert Cockton, Scottish HCI Centre, Heriot-Watt University, Chambers St.,
Edinburgh, EH1 1HX.  JANET:  gilbert@uk.ac.hw.hci   
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