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minionofmidas
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« on: March 30, 2013, 07:50:37 AM »
No Angus, that's verbing, not dumbing down. Verbing weirds language, dumbing down downdumbs it.
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minionofmidas
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« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2013, 04:58:32 AM »
If you want to Anglify that though, it's the Menter-Mented relationship. Mentee is (falsely applied and misspelled) French.
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