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Posted by on June 10, 2008, 11:19 pm
On Jun 11, 4:52=A0am, Samantha Hill - remove TRASH to reply
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> Mystified One wrote:
> > Thank goodness! =A0I was afraid I had "verbed" a noun for a minute there=
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> I do medical transcription, and doctors do it all the time -- "The
> patient was [medication]ized," "The patient was [procedure]ized." =A0Bleag=
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That is why Hebrew texts are shorter than English texts ,,,
a root verb of 3 letters changes time, person[s] gender ,,,,,,
mirjam
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Posted by Mary Fisher on June 11, 2008, 4:18 am
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> Mystified One wrote:
>> Thank goodness! I was afraid I had "verbed" a noun for a minute there!
> I do medical transcription, and doctors do it all the time -- "The patient
> was [medication]ized," "The patient was [procedure]ized." Bleagh.
I can never understand why 'burglarized'. What's wrong with burgled? Or
medicated or processed - although processing a patient does sound a bit
eerie ...
Mary
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Posted by on June 11, 2008, 6:05 am
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> I can never understand why 'burglarized'. What's wrong with burgled? Or
> medicated or processed - although processing a patient does sound a bit
> eerie ...
> Mary
Mary Languagee like people change and grow with events and cultures it
meets or even has frictions with !!!
English speaking Countries , rulled in many places and influnced those
places , but at the same time ABSORBED a lot culture, [including some
word uses ] from the countries and people they ruled,
mirjam
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> > Thank goodness! =A0I was afraid I had "verbed" a noun for a minute there=