Andreas Johansson wrote:
>Quoting caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...>:
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>>Andreas Johansson girs'epset':
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>>>Why not just "Verbing Weirds Language"? Surely it's short enough to
>>>escape the | copyright lawyers?
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>>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.?
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>It's from the comic "Calvin and Hobbes"; here's the original context:
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>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."
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This is why Calvin and Hobbes is among the greatest things to grace
mankind.