Words are not immutable boxes.
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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’.
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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’.
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLu2kD15mFU
[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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLu2kD15mFU
[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*
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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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLu2kD15mFU
[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 @urlyman Oh absolutely! I cannot myself speak German, but my housemate is fluent and has often said that creatively compounding words is delightful fun that English-speakers will never quite grasp.
I would support this being incorporated into English. If we can verb nouns then we can compound them, dammit! Let's break down these walls! Let's have a breakdownwallexcitementfest!
