"Our goal is to trial new technologies and figure out what kinds of applications you can send over these big pipes," said Richard Whitt, Google's Washington-based counsel for telecommunications and media. "There may be next-generation applications that are being held back right now.""Trial" has been verbed, and as we all know, verbing weirds language...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Verbing
From a HuffPo article on the proposed Google broadband experimental network:
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Your languaging is delightfully weirdable!
ReplyDeletethe main reason i minored in linguistics is because languages are so delightfully weird! the evolving weirding of the language is also one of the things i enjoy about lolcats too.
ReplyDeleteMr. Whitt is identified as "counsel", which would tend to be an indicator of a legal background. Given that the legal profession earns its crust by torturing language, this should be no great surprise, and "trial" is so much shorter than "try", at least to a lawyer... ;)
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