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I support harsh penalties on anyone who tries to noun a verb.
by calibas 8y ago
I support harsh penalties on anyone who tries to noun a verb.
- bstamour 8y agoVerbing weirds language. Respect your parts of speech!
- jamesblonde 8y agoNo noun is too proper to verbify :)
- dahart 8y agoVerbing nouns and nouning verbs is probably as old as verbs and nouns. These words are all nouned verbs: Chair, cup, divorce, drink, dress, fool, host, intern, lure, mail, medal, merge, model, mutter, pepper, salt, ship, sleep, strike, style, train, voice. (according to this, anyway: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/the-basics-of-verbing-nouns/ https://www.grammarly.com/blog/the-basics-of-verbing-nouns/) Shakespeare verbed nouns. "Compute" as a noun is at least 20 years old, according to my memory, and there are several high profile products named this way that are more than 10 years old.