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On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:15:21AM -0600, Jon Rafkind wrote:
> "Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding."
> 
> http://www.strangehorizons.com/2006/20060313/verbing_weirds_language.gif

I think it may have been Peter Ingerman or Peter Naur who first said,
decades ago, "In English, any noun can be verbed."

Anyone still know which?  I heard this from Barry Mailloux, who has, 
sadly, died far before his time.

-- hendrik