I would argue that we have or are in the process of acquiring a noun form of “new” via “newb”/”noob”. I don’t think it would take much of a leap for it to lose its restriction of referring to a person.
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Simon:
January 8th, 2010 at 3:21 pm
I would argue that we have or are in the process of acquiring a noun form of “new” via “newb”/”noob”. I don’t think it would take much of a leap for it to lose its restriction of referring to a person.