Quoting Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>:
> 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."
Found a link to the actual comic:
http://aoife.allegracom.ca/images/verbing_sm.jpg
Andreas