Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!xanth!ukma!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!alice!td From: td@alice.UUCP (Tom Duff) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: the word "bitmap" Message-ID: <8771@alice.UUCP> Date: 16 Jan 89 00:58:08 GMT References: <8568@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <17670003@hpfcdj.HP.COM> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ Lines: 6 In article <17670003@hpfcdj.HP.COM>, myers@hpfcdj.HP.COM (Bob Myers) writes: ) Does it strike anyone as ironic that the very group that is spending ) so much time worrying about the proper use of the word "bitmap" are ) also among that group who think that "input", "output", and "interface" ) are verbs? Oh come on, everybody knows that any noun can be verbed.