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My colleague Jack, who once worked beside me for a Canadian software company, used to comment that there is no noun that can be verbed and no verb that cannot be nouned.
Even my spell checker growls about the words nouned and verbed but these usages are becoming much more common in thee-Eeeenglish-as-she-ees-spoke these days. Take the word leverage, pronounced lee-verage in Britain. It used to be a noun as in we need a bit more leverage to get this unscrewed. Now it has mutated into a verb meaning something like to take advantage of. We also have 'leveraged debt' which apparently is when you owe some Chinese investors squillions that you don't actually have.
Yet another new usage is - the passive active - as in «... you should be happy to know that the latest update for the browser released today.» (from WebProWorld 25th Jan 2010). I think it means the update was released today. As far as I know, an update (a nouned verb, by the way) is incapable of releasing anything.
I'm not complaining (well I am a bit). People always seem to feel the need to find more succinct ways of writing things. And pedants will always complain about it. But eventually, we all get used to newspeak and then moan about the next generation of language manglers.
The problem for many, including me, is finding the balance between, on the one hand getting left behind in the race to a concise language of mathematical terseness, and on the other, not being too eager to adopt drug-dealer-speak as most of it will die in infancy anyway. Heavy or wot?
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