‘Unfriend’ VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz 11/26/2009

‘Unfriend’ VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz 11/26/2009 Recently, it was formally published that “unfriend” has been chosen as the “Oxford Word of the Year.” Immediately thereafter, questions were raised: How come such an ambivalent term? What does the strange word mean? Why has the curious expression come to fore? And so on, so forth. The glaring fact is that the word is emphatically rejected even by well updated computers — as wrongly spelled. Hence, it is but just and proper to ask the New Oxford American Dictionary what this curiously unfamiliar and intriguing locution “unfriend” is all about. .... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.classicposters.com/commentary/20091126com7.html

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