Apologies to William Safire, though he's welcome to use this if he feels it's worthy....

In the New York Times this Sunday, in the "On the Town" column with Adrien Brody (lately of The Pianist), is the somewhat odd scene of Mr Brody in coversation with a Mr Sean "Puffy, P-Diddy, Puff-Monster" Combs. In this scene, the word MP3 is used in a manner new to me. Previously, I've heard MP3 used as a noun ("Hey, that's a great MP3 of that song") or as a simple action verb ("Hey, did you MP3 the John Peel radio show? I missed the My Morning Jacket Session"). But in this case Mr Combs says "MP3 that to me in Miami" -- a motion verb, incorporating the act of creation and the act of sending (presumably via email or some s00pr-s3kr3t website Mr Combs maintains).

Maybe I'm just old, or out of touch. I was called a curmudgeon today....

Posted by esinclai at January 21, 2003 08:54 PM |