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Denzil_DC

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16. Decrepit is a perfectly cromulent word.

Reply to Bernardo de La Paz (Reply #14)

Wed Mar 21, 2018, 11:34 PM

Mar 2018

decrepit
[dih-krep-it]

1.
weakened by old age; feeble; infirm:
a decrepit man who can hardly walk.
2.
worn out by long use; dilapidated:
a decrepit stove.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/decrepit

Using it as a verb is a novel move, right enough but then language lives and breathes, and nouns (and in this case, even adjectives) are verbed and verbs are nouned quite often as neologisms.

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Boy, did I screw up!!! Got a computer with Google Chrome OS [View all] angstlessk Mar 2018 OP

On the contrary Egnever Mar 2018 #1

I don't hate it, I don't understand it! angstlessk Mar 2018 #2

quick run down. Egnever Mar 2018 #5

I am on my windows PC now angstlessk Mar 2018 #7

Now I am confused Egnever Mar 2018 #8

I mean, my 'other' computer (LAPTOP) is running Chrome OS angstlessk Mar 2018 #10

ok now I am tracking Egnever Mar 2018 #13

So, windows Excel is verboten...replaced with google drive... angstlessk Mar 2018 #9

if it supports the play store Egnever Mar 2018 #12

OH, and APPS WILL be the hieroglyphs of the future. angstlessk Mar 2018 #3

You may be correct, I may love this new version of computing angstlessk Mar 2018 #11

Why not download the FireFox browser and transfer your favorites? brush Mar 2018 #4

I tried, to no avail..it was not the browser..it was the email I wanted angstlessk Mar 2018 #6

It took me three hours to decipher your post Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2018 #14

Decrepit is a perfectly cromulent word. Denzil_DC Mar 2018 #16

If you exchange documents or like the programs you like to use ucrdem Mar 2018 #15

NOW chrome says I'm not connected to the internet! angstlessk Apr 2018 #17