Re: Debian, Iceweasel, Firefox!

[hendrik@topoi.pooq.com]

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