mo@messy.bellcore.com (Michael O'Dell) (05/01/91)
Question - is the title of this group a noun or a verb? Just musing on a slow day about what Martians might think, -Mike
sakkinen@jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen) (05/03/91)
In article <1991May1.014252.11702@bellcore.bellcore.com> mo@bellcore.com (Michael O'Dell) writes: >Question - is the title of this group a noun or a verb? The founding fathers certainly had a noun in mind, but today - as you probably have noted - it's about a half of each. Don't they say that it's a current American fashion "to verb" every second noun that wasn't also a verb already? Markku Sakkinen Department of Computer Science and Information Systems University of Jyvaskyla (a's with umlauts) PL 35 SF-40351 Jyvaskyla (umlauts again) Finland SAKKINEN@FINJYU.bitnet (alternative network address)
cole@farmhand.rtp.dg.com (Bill Cole) (05/04/91)
|>> Question - is the title of this group a noun or a verb? Answer: Yes |> The founding fathers certainly had a noun in mind, |> but today - as you probably have noted - it's about a half of each. |> Don't they say that it's a current American fashion "to verb" |> every second noun that wasn't also a verb already? Hey, when you're as poorly educated as most Americans, you've got to make 'em up as you go, you know. You know, play with what yuh got. /Bill And you thought basketball players knew all the answers.
garry@ithaca.uucp (Garry Wiegand) (05/05/91)
In a recent article sakkinen@jytko.jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen) wrote: >>Question - is the title of this group a noun or a verb? > >The founding fathers certainly had a noun in mind, >but today - as you probably have noted - it's about a half of each. >Don't they say that it's a current American fashion "to verb" >every second noun that wasn't also a verb already? We have the plain-C style convention that all our routine names are a verb plus an object noun. I have noticed in implementing this convention that English is wonderfully abundant in nouns and woefully short of verbs. The Brits we inherited the language from must have been too object oriented. We Americans are doing our best to proceduralize it. (Isn't that the wave of the future?) Garry Wiegand --- Ithaca Software, Alameda, California ...!uunet!ithaca!garry, garry%ithaca.uucp@uunet.uu.net
rockwell@socrates.umd.edu (Raul Rockwell) (05/06/91)
Garry Wiegand: We have the plain-C style convention that all our routine names are a verb plus an object noun. I have noticed in implementing this convention that English is wonderfully abundant in nouns and woefully short of verbs. The Brits we inherited the language from must have been too object oriented. We Americans are doing our best to proceduralize it. (Isn't that the wave of the future?) heh... maybe we should consider LA spanish a form of english... But should we consider the fall of Rome (to some rather germanic barbarians) to be the first major triumph of object oriented language techniques? :-) :-) :-) Raul Rockwell