Sure, any noun can be verbed, and any verb can be nouned. But today, we’re going to noun an adjective.\n I have no written citations of this usage; the only report was via a colleague who overheard it in a hallway conversion.<\/p>\n
I had some offlines with Fred about that. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
In Microspeak, offline<\/i> is an adjective which means “outside this meeting.” In order to keep a meeting on track, the meeting organizer may advise the people engaged in the discussion of a side topic or a topic of limited interest to take it offline, please<\/i>, meaning discuss this amongst yourselves after the meeting, please<\/i>. In other words, “Let’s not waste valuable meeting time on this topic.”<\/p>\n
The above citation converts the adjective offline<\/i> into a noun, an offline<\/i> presumably being shorthand for an offline conversation<\/i> (or other type of communication). The translation would therefore be something like “I had some private conversations with Fred about that.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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