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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:	The Joy of Lex
Notice:	A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:	THEBAY::SYSTEM

Created:	Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:	Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1192
Total number of notes:	42769

826.0. "Is 'rewalk' a real word?" by BALZAC::DONOVAN () Thu Sep 13 1990 16:25

    
    This may not be exactly the write conference, but can anybody across
    the Atlantic in the U.S.A. see if "rewalk" is a real word?  I think
    it is, in the sense that "you can rewalk the path you took earlier
    this morning."  Does anyone out there in the USA and not in England
    have an opinion on this?
    
    (As you have already noticed i made a pun in this message, keeeping
    to the spirit if not the letter of the laws of this conference.)
    
    
    Cheers,
    Kevin

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
826.1	Non-official view	MINAR::BISHOP		`Thu Sep 13 1990 17:51`	3
	"re-walk" looks fine to me. -John Bishop
826.2	but I don't think re- should be a verb...	TLE::RANDALL	living on another planet	`Thu Sep 13 1990 20:24`	3
	You can re- almost anything. --bonnie
826.3	Nope, can't find it	KYOA::DUNAIEF	They call me Madame Personality	`Thu Sep 13 1990 20:28`	8
	I can't find any mention in my Webster's Ninth Collegiate Dicitionary of rewalk or re-walk. Personally, I had never heard it used before this topic. I hope this helps. BjD
826.4		KAOFS::S_BROOK	It's time for a summertime dream	`Thu Sep 13 1990 22:15`	14
	Re.3 But then a lot of re.... words are not in dictionaries on the grounds that these are pattern formations ... i.e. to do whatever it was again ... many dictionaries will list a few of these pattern formed words and then most of the words whose meaning does not strictly follow the pattern ... for example remind ... So rewalk not being in a dictionary is not surprising. Mind you, I can't say I've ever heard it used either. I'm just going to walk the floor again. Stuart
826.5	do it quicker... have a rerun	AUSSIE::WHORLOW	D R A B C = action plan	`Fri Sep 14 1990 04:57`	7
	G'day, I thought I would retrace my steps, but I was not sure that did not imply doing it in the reverse direction. derek
826.6		WELMT2::HILL	I have a cunning plan, my lord!	`Fri Sep 14 1990 10:50`	8
	The typical structures I've seen are: 'Retrace my steps..' 'Retrace my original route...' to make sure you know he was going the same way down the same path. 'Back track...' when going in reverse over the route.
826.7	A Re-try	KYOA::DUNAIEF	They call me Madame Personality	`Fri Sep 14 1990 18:58`	7
	I suppose technically, you can "re-do" anything, it's just not a phrase that I have ever heard of. How's that?? BjD
826.8		TKOV51::DIAMOND	This note is illegal tender.	`Mon Sep 17 1990 03:34`	6
	In the limerick football game, some paths seem to have been reversed. I wouldn't quite say any noun can be verbed, but perhaps any verb can be reverbed. If you haven't ached a conclusion yet, it might take a while to alize what is correct. Member that a good sult will bring just wards.
826.9	Reverberation?	ULYSSE::COLLINS	Russ, 828-5371, Valbonne	`Wed Sep 19 1990 12:50`	1
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