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It's been verbed, but not verbized...

It's been verbed, but not verbized...

Posted Jan 16, 2007 15:39 UTC (Tue) by sepreece (subscriber, #19270)
In reply to: Don't you mean "Betamaxization"! by xoddam
Parent article: Tivo Healthcare (Free Software Magazine)

Actually, the use of "TiVoed" or "TiVoing" is pretty common ("I was out last night, so I TiVoed the second two hours of 24.").

I don't think I've ever heard "tivoize" used except in the sense that the FSF uses it, to mean locking hardware against software updates.


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