Words are not immutable boxes.
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Words are not immutable boxes. We may wish for their boundaries to be protected but they cannot be.
We cannot stop ‘sick’ becoming ‘good’, or ‘oversight’ meaning to oversee and also to miss through inattention.
The job of words is to be understood *in the moment*, in a context. For their intent to be a discernible eddy in a current.
And then the current flows on by and there is no protection to be had
…We can for sure argue about inadvisable use, and disagree about intent
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Words are not immutable boxes. We may wish for their boundaries to be protected but they cannot be.
We cannot stop ‘sick’ becoming ‘good’, or ‘oversight’ meaning to oversee and also to miss through inattention.
The job of words is to be understood *in the moment*, in a context. For their intent to be a discernible eddy in a current.
And then the current flows on by and there is no protection to be had
@urlyman I'm enjoying how, in informal English at least, it's rapidly becoming acceptable to turn anything into a verb!
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@urlyman I'm enjoying how, in informal English at least, it's rapidly becoming acceptable to turn anything into a verb!
@ApostateEnglishman @urlyman Verbing, as it were.
Edit: or is it Verb vibing?
Edit to edit: or vibe verbing?It’s best if I stop now.
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@ApostateEnglishman @urlyman Verbing, as it were.
Edit: or is it Verb vibing?
Edit to edit: or vibe verbing?It’s best if I stop now.
@spanghero @urlyman Vibe verbing?
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@spanghero @urlyman Vibe verbing?
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Okay, as Jonathan has won today's interwebs we can all pack up and go home now.
We'll get another run at it tomorrow.
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Okay, as Jonathan has won today's interwebs we can all pack up and go home now.
We'll get another run at it tomorrow.
@ApostateEnglishman @spanghero
too kind. Delighted to be vibing with the pair of you
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@ApostateEnglishman @spanghero
too kind. Delighted to be vibing with the pair of you
@urlyman @ApostateEnglishman @spanghero
The word 'Verbrations' insists on being decoded in my head as "verb rations".
In this viewpoint, the poor english-speaking paupers went up to the Workhouse Master and asked "Please Sir. May I have some verbs?" and were chastised and sent away verbless.
And so they had no choice but to verb some nouns, as they had spent all their verb rations. -
@urlyman @ApostateEnglishman @spanghero
The word 'Verbrations' insists on being decoded in my head as "verb rations".
In this viewpoint, the poor english-speaking paupers went up to the Workhouse Master and asked "Please Sir. May I have some verbs?" and were chastised and sent away verbless.
And so they had no choice but to verb some nouns, as they had spent all their verb rations. -
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@androcat @ApostateEnglishman @spanghero
Tangent: The Guardian used to run a micro-cartoon strip called ‘Lost Consonants’. I always wanted to see a sibling cartoon which I imagined to be titled ‘Vowel Movements’.
Jonathan Schofield (@urlyman@mastodon.social)
I have been set off on an exercise in Vowel Movements by a combination of @falcennial’s lovely thread https://mastodon.social/@falcennial/116566355537414929 and some earlier vibing https://ioc.exchange/@spanghero/116566995588194763 My openers are… “A nod’s as good as a wank” “A thong of beauty is a joy forever”
Mastodon (mastodon.social)
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@androcat @ApostateEnglishman @spanghero
Tangent: The Guardian used to run a micro-cartoon strip called ‘Lost Consonants’. I always wanted to see a sibling cartoon which I imagined to be titled ‘Vowel Movements’.
Jonathan Schofield (@urlyman@mastodon.social)
I have been set off on an exercise in Vowel Movements by a combination of @falcennial’s lovely thread https://mastodon.social/@falcennial/116566355537414929 and some earlier vibing https://ioc.exchange/@spanghero/116566995588194763 My openers are… “A nod’s as good as a wank” “A thong of beauty is a joy forever”
Mastodon (mastodon.social)
The Great Vowel Movement (Shift)
Oh, by the way, is "having a go" an instance of nouning a verb?
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@androcat you can count on a man living in the birth city of Dickens to toil at such Twists https://charlesdickensbirthplace.co.uk/
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The Great Vowel Movement (Shift)
Oh, by the way, is "having a go" an instance of nouning a verb?
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@androcat you can count on a man living in the birth city of Dickens to toil at such Twists https://charlesdickensbirthplace.co.uk/
Too late I realized, by going from the Dickens to Shakey, I had put myself on a trajectory to Chaucer, which is a bridge too far.
I did throw in a reference to Middle English though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift
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Having a 圍棋
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Too late I realized, by going from the Dickens to Shakey, I had put myself on a trajectory to Chaucer, which is a bridge too far.
I did throw in a reference to Middle English though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift
@androcat I did not know about England’s massive vowel movement. Thank you. I feel greatly relieved
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@androcat I did not know about England’s massive vowel movement. Thank you. I feel greatly relieved
@urlyman @androcat @spanghero None of us are adulting today, are we?
We should be ashamed of ourselves!
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@urlyman I'm enjoying how, in informal English at least, it's rapidly becoming acceptable to turn anything into a verb!
@ApostateEnglishman @urlyman If the German language's superpower is its infinite potential for compound words[1], then verbing definitely is English's superpower. Both can produce amazing eloquence... Still, after 23+ years in UK, mentally, I much rather continue to dwell in that realm of verbing, even after I had to return to the "kingdom of nouns"[2] due to Brexit...
[1] A great example (song title): Peter Kruder's Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänskajütenremix
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Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
(www.youtube.com)
[2] A little unrelated (other than the title), but also see: https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom-of-nouns.html
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@ApostateEnglishman @urlyman If the German language's superpower is its infinite potential for compound words[1], then verbing definitely is English's superpower. Both can produce amazing eloquence... Still, after 23+ years in UK, mentally, I much rather continue to dwell in that realm of verbing, even after I had to return to the "kingdom of nouns"[2] due to Brexit...
[1] A great example (song title): Peter Kruder's Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänskajütenremix
- YouTube
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
(www.youtube.com)
[2] A little unrelated (other than the title), but also see: https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom-of-nouns.html
@toxi that is a *vibe*
