This is on the T's "Red Line" which goes from the center of Boston to
the northwest side of Cambridge. You have to be mindful of the
demographic of this area. There are 37 colleges in Boston and 10 in
Cambridge (including MIT and Harvard) with a combined student body
population of about 175,000. Much to Chris's consternation there are
probably dozens of verbs being coined from nouns every week. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> Moose is right, "to friend" as a verb is now widespread in the social
> networking world and will undoubtedly one day become official by
> being included as such in dictionaries.
>
> I am on Facebook and find it very useful to keep in touch with my son
> in England as well as with friends in Denmark and family around the
> world. If your circle of friends and family is as geographically
> dispersed as mine, FB becomes very useful.
>
> Cheers, Nathan
>
> On 23 May, 2010, at 5:08 , Moose wrote:
>
>> On 5/23/2010 1:11 AM, Wayne Harridge wrote:
>>> Yeah, nice contrast !
>>>
>>> But what does "THEY WOULD FRIEND EACH OTHER" mean - sounds like a
>>> literal translation from another language.
>>>
>> Yup. Facebookese
>>
>> I guess you don't get out much? I, at least at yet, have nothing to
>> do with any of the "social networking" sites, but the lingo is sort
>> of ubiquitous.
>>
>> Since it's shown up in a MacD's ad, it's probably passé by now to
>> the target audience.
>>
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