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Conjugating the verb Google | ||
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| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6443 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes  Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 17 of 24 04 July 2008 at 7:47am | IP Logged | |||||
No such luck - my Italian friends who live an hour into Italy from the boarder use these types of terms as well. And I agree - they do sound bad. It seems to be the nature of things that words that one has a reason to use frequently come into existence and then become shortened though, even if the result is not appealing.
Yes - they're worried about losing their legal protection against trademark dilution; the term is 'genericized trademark'. They lose some legal protection if 'google' becomes a generic word, under American law; in at least some parts of Europe, I don't think that is the case. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 Hencke Tetraglot Moderator Spain Joined 6898 days ago 2340 posts - 2444 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Finnish, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 18 of 24 04 July 2008 at 9:20am | IP Logged | |||||
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This is just natural language evolution taking place before our eyes here. As ever, resistance is futile. There is clearly a need for this new verb in English as well as in other languages, and natural evolution steps in and fills the gap.
There is no basis for claiming it is not a "real" verb. It is just so recent that it maybe hasn't stabilised, or ended up in all the dictionaries in most languages yet, especially at the more prestigious end of the spectrum. But in due course it will. wwwebster has it in English though: Main Entry: goo·gle Listen to the pronunciation of google Pronunciation: \ˈgü-gəl\ Function: transitive verb Inflected Form(s): goo·gled; goo·gling Listen to the pronunciation of googling \-g(ə-)liŋ\ Usage: often capitalized Etymology: Google, trademark for a search engine Date: 2001 : to use the Google search engine to obtain information about (as a person) on the World Wide Web 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6443 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 19 of 24 04 July 2008 at 9:58am | IP Logged | |||||
I have to quibble with wwwebster on these two points. It's ambitransitive, not transitive, and it's rarely capitalized outside of formal writing/journalism. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| neonqwerty Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6167 days ago 229 posts - 239 votes Speaks: French*, English* Studies: Spanish | Message 20 of 24 04 July 2008 at 4:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
From that thread:
But just for fun: Je google Tu googles Il/elle google Nous googlons (fun to say!) Vous googlez Ils googlent 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| San Newbie Zimbabwe Joined 6047 days ago 32 posts - 32 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 21 of 24 04 July 2008 at 5:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Personally I've never heard that verb in Spanish, I've just read the conjugation list and it's hilarious, nobody I know would say that. It's just not that easy creating a new verb in this language. Of course it's different with adjectives, nouns and pseudo verbs made up of hacer/echar + noun/adverb. That's why the entry for echar in whatever dictionary seems endless, even though it is only the tip of the iceberg.
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| goltrpoat Triglot Newbie United States Joined 5998 days ago 29 posts - 29 votes Speaks: Russian*, English, German Studies: French, Latin | Message 22 of 24 06 July 2008 at 9:05pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I've seen "гуглить," "гугловать," "гуголить," etc. The first one sounds best, and appears to be in widest use by far. That having been said, Russian neologisms pop up like mushrooms, so it's hard to keep track.
In Persian, it's probably گوگلن (guglan), at least conjugating it produces reasonable looking hits: e.g., میگوگلم returns a page for what appears to be an off-Broadway play called "I google myself." I'm still quite new to the language, so hopefully someone will correct me if the above is wrong. Incidentally, if you're wondering why Google returns an East Village play with Tim Cusack in response to a made-up Farsi word, I'm very much with ya. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kualidu Triglot Groupie Mexico Joined 6210 days ago 93 posts - 102 votes Speaks: Spanish*, French, EnglishC2 Studies: GermanB1 | Message 23 of 24 08 July 2008 at 12:10am | IP Logged | |||||
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First time I heard of "google" people would pronounce it as "gogle", "búscalo en el gogle", "lo encontré en el gogle". I don't know if this was mere out of fun or they just didn't know the English pronunciation.
We don't have a verb like "guglear" but we do tend to add a definite article and say "el google (gugel)". "Búscalo en el gugel". 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Pavilion Groupie United States Joined 6059 days ago 58 posts - 56 votes Speaks: English* | Message 24 of 24 08 July 2008 at 4:02pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I dislike "google" used as a verb and much prefer terms such as "searching". I expect people thought the same about things like "hoover" as opposed to "vacuum cleaner" when that first entered everyday language.
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