Now I've seen everything....

[drquuxum.livejournal.com]

One of my users (who normally is well-clued) just used the word "Mozilla" as a verb, and only slightly wrongly.

Quote: "Also can you mozilla on [his Macintosh]. Safari has problems accessing one of my web sites."

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[misskrisha.livejournal.com]

i'd like to see how it was used...

"i mozilla'ed it on my laptop, but the upload wouldn't download..."?

[drquuxum.livejournal.com]

Posted. I understand it to mean "install Firefox", but still....

[misskrisha.livejournal.com]

at least he had the company name right.

[spooforbrains.livejournal.com]

In a meeting with the ops director of a major client of ours (for whom we'd installed an entire Linux architechture) she referred at one point (with a straight face) to "Mozzarella Mail". I held a straight face for about five seconds before our project manager (usually the straight man in our team) burst into laughter.

[ptomblin-lj.livejournal.com]

Back in the late 80s or early 90s at a company called GeoVision, the programmers, tech support, applications specialists and other clued people were on Unix mail, and the secretaries, accountants, HR and other dumbasses were on this stupid office automation system called Xaos. (Yeah, calling something you mean to organize an office something that sounds like "chaos" is really bright. So is making it so you can't exchange email between one group of people in an office and the other.) After Xaos went off the market, we tried to bring the dumbasses onto Unix mail by teaching them about the command "elm", which was a pretty decent mailer at the time.

Of course, the dumbasses immediately started using "elm" as a verb. "Will you elm me your preferred travel dates?" "I've elmed the expense reports to your boss, when I get the go-ahead I'll elm you."

[kenbrody.livejournal.com]

Did they previously say "Will you Xaos me your preferred travel dates" and "I've Xaosed the expense reports to your boss"?

dunno

[ptomblin-lj.livejournal.com]

Since they couldn't communicate electronically with us or the outside world, I have no idea what they would have called it.

[ptstech.livejournal.com]

Sounds like Smurf talk.

[gilmoure.livejournal.com]

I think I once Word'd on my Mac but I cleaned up afterwards.

[kenbrody.livejournal.com]

I've fscked my systems.

[drquuxum.livejournal.com]

IMHfO, fsck is acceptable to use as a verb, as it performs a very specific action. It also makes people who don't know what it means to re-read it several times. ;-)

I am guilty, however, of actually saying "I make'd clean"....

[two-pi-r.livejournal.com]

I posted a while back about someone using "wiki" as a verb, specifically

"I had to wiki the hell out of the web"

[wbyonder.livejournal.com]

Hey, google is listed as a verb in the dictionary now.