Almost any word can be drafted to serve as a verb, even words we think of as eternal and unchanging, stuck in their more traditional roles.
From Erin McKean
Objections to verbification in English tend to be motivated by personal taste, not clarity. Verbed words are usually easily understood. When a word like 'friend' is declared not a verb, the problem isn't that it's confusing; it's that the protester finds it deeply annoying.
Twitter has already birthed an entire ecosystem of other sites that extend its power or interact with it. But Twitter isn't just a platform for technological innovation: It's showing signs as an engine of creativity for the language, too.
Twitter is like overhearing people's conversations, which is exactly what dictionary editors have been wishing we could do for years.
You can limit the number of invitations to an in-person fashion show, but you can't police the Internet.
People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another.
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