Wonderful analysis there, David!
On Wednesday 27 September 2006 09:54, "David Lodge" <dave cirt net> wrote:
> In terms of use as a verb I'd agree with Toby, but I feel that we are
> pandering to the American English tendency to turn nouns into verbs on a
> regular basis: log in should be treated as the verb "log" and the
> preposition "in", rather than the whole thing as a verb.
Treating the verb as one word also wreaks havoc with alternative forms of the
word/phrase. For instance, how is 'login' compatible with phrases like 'logs
in', 'logging in' and 'logged in'?
> Finally, I disagree OUP over "cooperate" and "coordinate", I think that
> they should be hyphenated to aid pronunciation. But that's my own personal
> opinion.
I have always read the first syllables of 'cooperate' and 'coordinate'
as 'coop' and 'coor', respectively. Without a hyphen, they'd might as well be
different words entirely.
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Sridhar Dhanapalan
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