Re: Treeviews

From: Donald Tees (donald_tees_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 02/27/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 08:40:58 -0500

Pete Dashwood wrote:
> <docdwarf@panix.com> wrote in message news:cvrfj0$bqp$1@panix2.panix.com...
>
> OK. Having read all of the authors you cited, and quite extensively, my
> memory does not tell me any of them used 'dialogue' as a verb. I believe it
> would, because it sounds just as hideous on my ear as it apparently did on
> Richard's <g>.
>
> I therefore have to conclude any or all of the following:
>
> a: My reading has not been extensive enough, despite a lifetime of pusuing
> it <g>
> b: My memory of what I have read is not accurate. (Very possible, but a
> truly fightening thought, for me... <g>)
> c: The Doc is making it up to wind us up... (No, never... <g>)
> d: The OED is mistaken.(Unimaginable, but not impossible...)
>
> As I'm sure you can imagine, I find none of these a particulary attractive
> conclusion. To help me out of this, and allow me to decide where my
> education is lacking, I must ask you on this occasion to show the actual
> quotes from Shakespeare, Coleridge, and Carlyle, where the word 'dialogue'
> is used as a verb.
>
> Pete.
>
I'm sure Doc can dialog(ue) them to you over the internet. God, it
sounds horrible to my ear as well, correct or not. Maybe it is an early
example of overloading?

Donald

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