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Sure, you can say three nouns in a row in English. But can you then make them into a verb? Or and adjective? What happens when some of the three words in Englis
by rags2riches 1y ago
Sure, you can say three nouns in a row in English. But can you then make them into a verb? Or and adjective? What happens when some of the three words in English already are in a form that also parses as a verb or an adjective?
English is a bastard language and it shows in its grammar.
- stronglikedan 1y agoBuffalo buffalo buffalo.
- nazgul17 1y agoI have verbified nouns on several occasions. My colleague this week took this a step further with this sentence: "We can model the data in [such and such way]. But then the user can PEBCAK their way into [impossible situation]." So close to poetry.
- rags2riches 1y agoI was asking you to string three nouns together and verbify the resulting noun, like you effortlessly do in a language like German. Also, note how your verbified noun is identical to the original noun. That's the lacking grammar of the bastardised English language showing.
- int_19h 1y agoThe grammar isn't lacking, it's just that word function is determined by its position in the sentence and/or prepositions, rather than word mutation. With respect to composite-noun-verbifying, it works so long as you use hyphens to make clear it's a single unit.