Hmmm you can look at it another way: use one word instead of a phrase. Using dogfood as one word to describe "the act of using software that you build" (my own definition). So in essence this made up word is used in place of a phrase.
What I find interesting is you did the same thing with verbising. You made up a word (so says the red squiggly line), and gave it a definition, so that you could re-use it again later in another sentence. You could have of course just used your definition both times. Aren't you guilty of a similar offense? ;-p /Greg don't take offense, I just find it interesting enough to comment. From: Greg Keogh Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 2:35 AM To: 'ozSilverlight' Subject: RE: VHDs in Windows 7 (was RE: Silverlight 4) It's cool huh. I used to use this a lot when i was in Microsoft as given i used to dogfood a lot of software for the company Aha! This is the third time I've seen that word used like that in the last week (and I refuse to lookup what it means). This is the tip of the terrible iceberg of "verbising" (turning nouns into verbs). It's an American disease that is spreading, we must start an international drive to eradicate it. Soon we'll have 1984 newspeak like "After 5pm I'm going to glass some wine, chair myself and hobbyise some code". Or "I was walking the garden this morning and I lost my footage and fell over" (that's not quite verbising, but I'm hearing more of this sort of thing recently). Greg -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
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