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Verbing and Nounification aren't so bad (Score:1)

by n1vux (1492) on 2005.03.16 14:03 (#38936) Homepage Journal

It's only a problem if you engage habitually engage in re-nominalizationification (seldom seen outside Washington officialdom).
If that hack Shakspeare can invent [theatrehistory.com] nonce-words [randomhouse.com], so can you. If you can get them into the dictionary 600 years from now, that's really something!

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use Sig;

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