Well, 'e hadn't oughter.
Active - passive...transitive, intransitive - I never sorted all that out. But
I know when it feels wrong and turning nouns into verbs willy nilly? Up with
this I will not put,
To obsolesce - sound like t's decaying and glowing at the same time.
Andrew Fildes
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On 05/02/2013, at 5:28 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
> Always remembering, Andrew, that "to obsolesce" means to become obsolete and
> is an intransitive verb. Whereas Ken is using the word "obsolete" as a
> transitive verb.
>
> It's a corruption of the language however you look at, but we have already
> been through the idea that something is not obsolete if it's still in healthy
> use.
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