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And you just taught me that "ape" is a verb! I know, really off topic...
by ezequiel-garzon 14y ago
And you just taught me that "ape" is a verb! I know, really off topic...
- Someone 14y agoIn English, you can verb any noun. http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/15473/is-it-possible-to-verb-anything-other-than-a-noun http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/15473/is-it-possi... even has an example of verbing an adjective in Calvin and Hobbes: http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/01/25 http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/01/25 (found via http://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/ http://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/)
- dspeyer 14y agoThe verb ape is not simply a verbed version of the noun. It means "shallowly imitate".