[M3devel] REFANY-keyed tables?

[Rodney M. Bates]

Yeah, I thought about the different meaning.  I suppose I could
have verbed "exception", giving "instead of just exceptioning",
but that would have been more than even I can stomach.

On 02/27/2014 02:09 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 02:56:12PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:54:13AM -0600, Rodney M. Bates wrote:
>>
>>> (Can "except" be verbed?  Some say any word can be verbed.)
>>
>> Peter Naur said it, "In English, any noun can be verbed."
>>
>> But "except" is already a verb.
>
> But I suspect it may have a different meaning:
>
> verbformal
> 1.
> specify as not included in a category or group; exclude.
> "he excepted from his criticism a handful of distinguished writers"
> synonyms:	exclude, omit, leave out, count out, disregard; exempt
> "lawyers are all crooks, present company excepted"
>
> -- hendrik
>