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echo: osdebate
to: Rich
from: Adam
date: 2006-06-30 07:06:14
subject: Re: Productize

From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Rich wrote:
>    It is used in English speech and writing.
>

It is used in management speak.

innit is used in speech too. Most would call that slang.

All this is is a "verbing" of a noun. Take any noun. Place ize on
the end et voila apparantly a new verb.

"let's get goneize"

It's not English, it's an excuse for illiteracy.

innit.

> Rich
>
>
>     "Adam"      > wrote in message
>     news:44a3c80c$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>     Rich wrote:
>     >    Commercializing and productizing are not the same.  The English
>     > language has lots of words with similar or overlapping but distinct
>     > meanings.
>     >
>
>     "Productize" is an English word?
>
>     So if I feed food to a pig I am "pigizing the food"? If
I turn some
>     parts into a train I am "trainizing the parts"?
>
>     Good grief.
>
>     Adam

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