May 24, 2007

"Elminated."

What a fine verbification! Even if it was a typo. Saw it in the Bleat this morning, used to describe how the Star-Tribune's science section had been cut a few years back.

As I said--it's a fine new verb. You get the sense of something like Dutch Elm Disease, the process being elmification, used to describe the slow withering away of the dead-tree media product.

Posted by Terry Oglesby at May 24, 2007 09:53 AM
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