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Rotter Posted 15 years ago
Linguistics Studies
Tweeted and facebooked
Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has given birth to a baby girl, husband actor Abhishek Bachchan has tweeted.
Father-in-law Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan also tweeted: "I am Dada (grandfather) to the cutest baby girl".
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I am surprised to learn the new addition of the verb to the great language of English.
People use twitter and it would be fine to say ,for example, I tweeted
How about the Facebook?
Would you say ' I have facebooked'?
I use Facebook very often to contact some friends.
Father-in-law Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan also tweeted: "I am Dada (grandfather) to the cutest baby girl".
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I am surprised to learn the new addition of the verb to the great language of English.
People use twitter and it would be fine to say ,for example, I tweeted
How about the Facebook?
Would you say ' I have facebooked'?
I use Facebook very often to contact some friends.
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As someone on Twitter didn't 'twitter' but tweeted, I imagine that the verb for posting on Facebook will also be different. I have not heard one yet, however.
- As someone on Twitter didn't 'twitter' but tweeted, I imagine that the verb for posting on Facebook will also be different.
- I have not heard one yet, however.
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As someone on Twitter didn't 'twitter' but tweeted, I imagine that the verb for posting on Facebook will also be different. I have not heard one yet, however.
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Did tweet come to be used because twitter as a verb was already in use? Since there's been no verb to facebook, facebook could well become, or may be already, the verb of choice for uploading something to Facebook. I facebooked our prom pictures. ~ I posted our prom pictures to my Facebook account.
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Did tweet come to be used because twitter as a verb was already in use? -- No, because 'tweet' has also been a verb since the 1800s.
Since there's been no verb to facebook,facebook could well become, or may be already, the verb of choice for uploading something to Facebook.-- Probably not, since 'book' is also a verb of long standing. Also, it sounds
Since there's been no verb to facebook,facebook could well become, or may be already, the verb of choice for uploading something to Facebook.-- Probably not, since 'book' is also a verb of long standing. Also, it sounds
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When did something's being infelicitous stop it from being used? Facebook is already used extensively as a transitive verb: I facebooked you. Meaning, I added you to my Facebook friends' network.
All right. Do you suppose tweet was used rather than twitter because it's imitative of the sound a small bird makes?
Hmm, why don't I just look it up
All right. Do you suppose tweet was used rather than twitter because it's imitative of the sound a small bird makes?
Hmm, why don't I just look it up
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Do you suppose tweet was used rather than twitter because it's imitative of the sound a small bird makes?-- No, it is because twittering (in birds) is a long series of single tweets.
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Until this exchange, I had associated twitter with the second definition at dictionary.com: to talk lightly and rapidly, especially of trivial matters; chatter.
One look at twitter.com and its logo confirms the bird association, the first d.com definition: to utter a succession of small, tremulous sounds, as a bird.
One look at twitter.com and its logo confirms the bird association, the first d.com definition: to utter a succession of small, tremulous sounds, as a bird.
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