Small Things Count

Who’d think that a hand-held device could become a verb?  Yes, the iPod has begun to show action.  I heard perfectly intelligent people on the TV show Press Here discuss companies that are starting to iPodify!  Now, I’m all for language growth–it enriches us all. But I prefer borrowings from other languages, like the French chic, Irish hooligan, Italian fresco, Yiddish klutz, and, of course, the Spanish taco.  I’m not sure I like that gizmo I can’t escape from wheedling its way into my language, forcing me to listen to people iPodify, watch neighbors iPodify, seeing my dog step into something after someone carelessly iPodifies…my Heavens! being forced at gunpoint to iPodfy  or perish…and I don’t even know how!  No, I’m not ready for this.