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The Evolving Grammar of "Tweet"

On Language Log, the linguist Geoffrey Pullum has some interesting observations about the Twitterism "to tweet." Pullum writes, "The verb tweet is gradually developing its own syntax according to what it means and what its users regard as its combinatory possibilities." Read his post and the extended comments here.
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