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Re: [Conlangs-Conf] Witty slogan

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 8, 2006, 16:50
Andreas Johansson wrote:

>Quoting caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...>: > > > >>Andreas Johansson girs'epset': >> >> >> >>>Why not just "Verbing Weirds Language"? Surely it's short enough to >>>escape the | copyright lawyers? >>> >>> >>I must confess that I don't know what it means. Do I parse it as >>SVO? What do "to weird" & "to verb" (I'm assuming it's a gerund) >>mean? Is it gerund/adj./direct object? Why is there an "s" on the >>adj.? >> >> > >It's from the comic "Calvin and Hobbes"; here's the original context: > >Calvin said, "I like to verb words." "What?" asked Hobbes. "I take nouns and >adjectives and use them as verbs. Remember when 'access' was a thing? Now it's >something to do. It got verbed. Verbing weirds language." Hobbes commented >"Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding." > > >
This is why Calvin and Hobbes is among the greatest things to grace mankind.