Edmond,
   I think we all need to be poets. And our study of literature should 
convince us that literary language need not differ from the language of 
everyday life. My experience has been that students would rather have a 
playful and flexible language than a rigid and tight one, and they 
respond very well to this sort of play.
   How about "We streamed the data," which would give us a transitive use.
   Your message came though streamingly. (OK; it's a stretch).

Craig

Edmond Wright wrote:
> Janet and William,
>
> Would it not be better to think of words as just as nameless entities that
> can be fitted into a range of function slots according to context?  Our
> memories can make the requisite jumps even when the change is unprecedented
> as long as the contextual clues are obvious.  William, plumberhood may take
> precedence over lawnmowinghood in human life, but why should, say, 'noun' be
> affixed to a word just because a majority of its uses are of the noun type?
> Are we, like the dictionary, just to count by numbers?  Where is the
> linguistic characterization in that?  Even words with so-called noun-endings
> can be subverted (e.g. 'conversation piece').
>
> Consider:
>
>
> The stream ran through the wood.
>
> The rays stream out in every colour.
>
> The factory will be on stream next month.
>
> Being a stream school, it won't present you with a range of abilities in one
> class.
>
> Stream the atoms came in:  packets they went out.
>
> Our output is going to be stream reliable -- no hiccups!
>
>
> Edmond
>
>
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