17 Jan
2007
17 Jan
'07
2:40 a.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
All nouns can be verbed.
For example, "All nouns can be verbed."
Peace... Sridhar
> Fred Cisin
wrote:
>> Remember that "boot" is short for "bootstrap". The relevance
of THAT
>> goes back to Baron Von Munchausen. The good baron, although oft
>> accused of exaggeration, told many tales of his travels. One time,
>> he was stuck in a swamp, and sinking fast. There was nothing
>> overhead to grab, and nothing solid on any side. So, he reached
>> down, grabbed the straps of his boots, and lifted himself out of it.
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Chris M wrote:
hmmm. So bootstrapping has nothing to do with
getting
on a horse?
Not unless you lift yourself by your bootstraps to do it.
It is obviously a physical impossibility, just like using the operating
system functions that are available once the OS is loaded, for loading the
operating system.
"To bootstrap" also shows that verbizing nouns has been around for quite a
while.