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About the verbs used as nouns, I work with a team based in China, and they do that all the time (and sometimes they used nouns as verbs). I know nothing of Mand
by ckarmann 8y ago
About the verbs used as nouns, I work with a team based in China, and they do that all the time (and sometimes they used nouns as verbs). I know nothing of Mandarin but maybe it's a thing common in this language that they do uncounsciously when they speak English.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoEnglish is my second language, but ever since becoming somewhat proficient in it, I thought verbing and nouning are features of English (contrast with e.g. Polish, where while a possible and formally recognized transformation, it's still very much frowned upon).