[Magdalen] New to Me.

[Marion Thompson]

One of my keeper words encountered when I worked at the Computer Systems 
Research Group (personal irony!) at U of T in the late Seventies was 
'bootstrapability'.  Never did learn its meaning.

Marion, a pilgrim

On 10/16/2015 10:46 AM, Jim Guthrie wrote:
> From: Marion Thompson
>
>> Just now in a radio interview I heard a woman say that a certain 
>> action would 'incentivize' consumers to do something.
>
> That one's been around for some years -- and those of us who’ve worked 
> in business have run into it regularly.  But as Bethany Dumas (or 
> perhaps her horse) once posted on TOL, "English is a great language -- 
> you can verb anything."
>
> Cheers,
> Jim
>
>
>
>
>
>