The Old New Thing

Microspeak: Offline (noun)

December 20, 2011 Dec 20, 2011 12/20/11

Raymond Chen

Sure, any noun can be verbed, and any verb can be nouned. But today, we're going to noun an adjective. I have no written citations of this usage; the only report was via a colleague who overheard it in a hallway conversion. I had some offlines with Fred about that. In Microspeak, offline is an adjective which means "outside this meeting." ...