It's simple a contraction of the established verb - to befriend. I
don't think any of us would have a problem with that. It's clumsy of
course but...it's two characters shorter!!!
To verb or to verbalise - which is more appropriate...?
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 23/05/2010, at 8:34 PM, 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.
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