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Subject:Re: Task as a verb? From:Nora Merhar <merhar -at- ALENA -dot- SWITCH -dot- ROCKWELL -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 14 Feb 1995 10:04:43 CST
Sonja,
I see this a lot, and I HATE it. I have always assumed it was some sort of goofy
business jargon, like using interface to refer to a conversation between two
people. However, I just looked it up in my old Webster's Collegiate, and as a
secondary definition of task, it says "vt: to assign a task to". So I guess
it's correct.
Nora
merhar -at- alena -dot- switch -dot- rockwell -dot- com
