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Webcasted IS a word!!!
Webcast is similar to broadcast. If you disagree, I'm interested in hearing why.
Broadcast is a noun, an adjective, an adverb, or even a verb. Is broadcasted a word? Webster's seems to think so. Therefore I submit that webcasted is also a word, as a verb transient of webcast. The disctionary folks just haven't caught up with the world yet. Don |
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Re: Webcasted is not a word!!!
there is one word that can be used for all 8 parts of spech, am i correct on this?
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Re: Webcasted is not a word!!!
That word falls under the group of words I like to call "Photoshop Words"
"Photoshop Words" are nouns that are commonly used, incorrectly, as verbs. I call them "Photoshop Words" simply because photoshop is the most common noun used as a verb. "Just photoshop it out". I think webcasted is a perfectly acceptable way to use webcast. Now... graciously accepting... that's just conceited... ![]() |
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Re: Webcasted is not a word!!!
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Re: Webcasted is not a word!!!
Hmmm!. Looks like reading/writing may be suffering as much as Science and Tech.
Xerox is a great company to work for. (Xerox is a noun) She xerox'd her resume on the company's machine. (xerox'd, with no cap, is a verb with past tense). It's a xerox image - not an original. (xerox is an adjective) The program was shown on broadcast television. (broadcast is an adjective) Why don't you just wikipedia it. (wikipedia, with no cap, is a verb). Googling that subject was real time consuming. (Googling is a gerund). Yes I'm going to photoshop that picture before I publish it but I'm going to do it with Gimp. (photoshop is a verb). She saw the webcast. She webcasted the saw. I webcast, you webcast, she webcasts. (Present Tense) I webcasted, you webcasted, she webcasted. (Past Tense) I webcast, you webcast, she webcast. (Alternative for Past Tense) I will webcast, you will webcast, she will webcast. (Future Tense) All of the above, at least IMHO, and if I didn't make a mistake, are correct forms/transforms for American English. None of them violate any rules of grammatical formation and they all have unambiguous (if not obvious) meaning. For British/International English the first example would be "Xerox are a great company to work for". |
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Re: Webcasted is not a word!!!
just because it isn't in the dictionary doesn't mean it isn't a word.
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Re: Webcasted is not a word!!!
Obviously english is never my forte
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Re: Webcasted is not a word!!!
aww, you could have made that really funny by using ain't instead of isn't
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Re: Webcasted is not a word!!!
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OK? Seriously: It is a fact that dictionaries are usually several years behind usage, simply to ensure that the word has really entered the language on a reasonably permanent basis. What is the oldest dictionary to include the word "internet" (n)? Compare that date to when the internet was 'invented' (ostensibly by Al Gore). Repeat for other words, like Cellular Telephone, WiFi, and others that didn't exist in 1978. When was the first webcast? Don |
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Re: Webcasted is not a word!!!
but ain't really isnt a word... its more like a grammatical nightmare
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