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Interesting that "verb" does not appear in the posted article. I immediately thought of Yegge's kingdom of nouns blog post, which is 20 years old last month! I

• throw310822 6mo ago
  I've always thought that it's because the meaning of verbs tends to change a lot depending on the noun they're applied to: You can get the garbage bag but you can also get a concept You can carry the garbage out but also carry a burden You can dump the garbage but also dump someone. You'd have to define exceptionally accurate verbs and then make sure they have a coherent meaning across all the nouns they are applicable to.