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Conjugating the verb Google | ||
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 Hencke Tetraglot Moderator Spain Joined 6894 days ago 2340 posts - 2444 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, Finnish, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 9 of 24 03 July 2008 at 5:46pm | IP Logged | ||
Right you are, and thanks for the addition. I have seen those other ones too, but I forgot about them when I was replying here. Anyways, if I had to venture a bet I'd say the playful ring will win out and take over in the end. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 10 of 24 03 July 2008 at 6:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well, kuukelitäti ;) gave me just 200 results for kuukeloida and one thousand more for kuukkeloida... not much compared to 20 000 for googlata (which I personally like best out of the three... kysyä kuukelitädiltä is my fave though) and 66 000 for googlettaa..
And funny that гуглить (погуглить, нагуглить) is mentioned in that wordreference thread as an seldomly used one, in the two years that have passed since the thread was created it's definitey become more common :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 6034 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes 5 sounds | Message 11 of 24 04 July 2008 at 2:08am | IP Logged | ||
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аз да гугълна
ти да гугълнеш той/тя/то да гугъне ние да гугълнем вие да гугълнете те да гугълнат The "да" is a tense thing, I'm not sure about its name but the "verb" Гугъл is usually conjugated with it. By the way this topic can be extended to all computer terms, which tend to be imported directly from English and then conjugated accordingly. Edited by Sennin on 04 July 2008 at 2:12am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Tigresuisse Triglot Senior Member SwitzerlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6005 days ago 182 posts - 180 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German Studies: Russian | Message 12 of 24 04 July 2008 at 2:19am | IP Logged | ||
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In Italian we do not have a verb for google yet ...
We still use something like "cercare in google" or other variants ... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 6034 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes 5 sounds | Message 13 of 24 04 July 2008 at 2:25am | IP Logged | ||
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You are lucky not having it; It is not a proper verb even in English, not to mention the travesty of conjugating it in another language ;p. Edited by Sennin on 04 July 2008 at 2:25am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6439 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 14 of 24 04 July 2008 at 3:44am | IP Logged | ||
Oh yes we do. My Ticinese/Italian friends who use computers a lot do say things like 'googleare' as well as 'cercare in google', etc. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Tigresuisse Triglot Senior Member SwitzerlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6005 days ago 182 posts - 180 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German Studies: Russian | Message 15 of 24 04 July 2008 at 3:50am | IP Logged | ||
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Ok but please don't call it a verb ... googelare sounds really horrible in Italian ... and even if I'm an original Ticinese girl, I have to say that in Ticino, Italian is not always as good as it should ... we have a lot of regionalisms and German influences ... an Italian person from Florence, Rome or Milan would not say "googelare" or whatever ....
or at least I hope soooooooo .... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6703 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 16 of 24 04 July 2008 at 4:50am | IP Logged | ||
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In Danish "at google" is rather common and can be conjugated as an ordinary weak verb: "jeg googler, jeg googlede, jeg har googlet". I don't have any paper dictionaries where I'm sitting now so I don't whether it has been accepted in any of those yet (it probably hasn't), but it has not been accepted in the on-line dictionaries that I have tried out. However it may well turn up soon in both types of dictionaries because the official Danish "Sprognævn" generally accepts everything that people actually say.
Btw. I found a notice (in Danish) about some uneasiness inside the company Google about this use of "to google" as a verb - apparently they don't like that it is being used for 'searching on the internet' in general, it is only OK when people in fact use Google. However I doubt that even Google can stop this generalized use of the word. Edited by Iversen on 04 July 2008 at 8:04am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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