[ExI] Apologies was Re: (no subject)

[Mike Dougherty]

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 10:14 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
> Idea: spam filters should have an auto-post that goes to any address one specifies as a never block.  That would be the email counterpart to Facebook's friending.  That being said, I sometimes get the urge to get a bullhorn and go over to Menlo Park, stand outside the headquarters and explain to the silly goofs that the term friend is a NOUN not a verb.  Those annoying proles have made my job harder in teaching my own son about the nuances of language.  We do not friend a friend, we befriend a friend.  By flatly refusing to wade into the memetic tarpit which is Facebook and use only email, then our never-blocking an address is how we electronically befriend a friend.

email is easily spoofed.  Hopefully that explains the impersonation of
Avantguardian rather than keyloggers and such scumware.

I think it may be your son who teaches you the nuances of language.
We verb nouns all the time ("friend").  We also noun verbs ("link").

Isn't language allowed/supposed to evolve?