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."
Andreas Johansson