The use of 'cloud' as a verb

[DaviDC.]

The other night I heard a commercial about how easy their product was 'to cloud.' I wasn't watching so I don't know what was being advertised but using cloud as a verb made the grammer nazi in me take notice.

[vision63]

Chick threatened to cloud our pix if I didn't leave my wife.

[M A V I C]

I can't stand most of the cloud marketing because it is often 1) doesn't actually make use of cloud computing or 2) doesn't actually make a difference if it was on the cloud or not.

[Uncle Wig]

"Hookers and booze will cloud your judgement." Isn't that correct usage?

But yeah - my grammar nazi is on the march too. I understand that languages are not static, but ours is being tortured to death. There's a special place in hell for the marketing "creatives" who come up with this shit.

[Grace62]

Cloud is a perfectly respectable verb. Once you start making up tech words though, all bets are off.

cloud
verb
Definition of CLOUD
intransitive verb
1
: to grow cloudy —usually used with over or up
2
a of facial features : to become troubled, apprehensive, or distressed in appearance

[Seacrest]

Uncle Wig wrote:
"Hookers and booze will cloud your judgement." Isn't that correct usage?

But yeah - my grammar nazi is on the march too. I understand that languages are not static, but ours is being tortured to death. There's a special place in hell for the marketing "creatives" who come up with this shit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDW_Hj2K0wo

Uh, NSFW language, BTW.

[hal]

DaviDC. wrote:
The other night I heard a commercial about how easy their product was 'to cloud.' I wasn't watching so I don't know what was being advertised but using cloud as a verb made the grammer nazi in me take notice.

don't let it cloud your perception...

ummm... did you say grammer

[kap]

To cloud one's mind? What's ya smokin'?

[$tevie]

M A V I C wrote:
I can't stand most of the cloud marketing because it is often 1) doesn't actually make use of cloud computing or 2) doesn't actually make a difference if it was on the cloud or not.

The one where the woman clones her kids' heads into one picture to make a nice family photo drives me nuts. What does that have to do with "the cloud"?

[NewtonMP2100]

....the Shadow....CLOUDED......my judgement.....