On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 07:52:55AM -0500, Max Hyre wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > The real > > interesting one to me is the battle Adobe has going to prevent > > "photoshop" from becoming a synonym for "edit a photograph" or for an > > edited photograph. > > It's already been, you should pardon the expression, ``verbed''. As > in ``Was that photoshopped?'' when expressing doubt as to the > authenticity of an image.
No pardon needed. In English, any noun can be verbed. But I have a preverence for not verbing nouns unnecessarily. Maybe that's my Dutch heritage. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]