Words are not immutable boxes.

[androcat@toot.cat]

@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@mastodon.social]

@androcat gruel-ing

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[androcat@toot.cat]

@urlyman

Didst thou just verb a noun at me?!?

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[urlyman@mastodon.social]

@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”

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[androcat@toot.cat]

@urlyman

The Great Vowel Movement (Shift)

Oh, by the way, is "having a go" an instance of nouning a verb?

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[urlyman@mastodon.social]

@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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[urlyman@mastodon.social]

@androcat depends https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game)

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[androcat@toot.cat]

@urlyman

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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[androcat@toot.cat]

@urlyman

Having a 圍棋
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[urlyman@mastodon.social]

@androcat I did not know about England’s massive vowel movement. Thank you. I feel greatly relieved

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[apostateenglishman@mastodon.world]

@urlyman @androcat @spanghero None of us are adulting today, are we?

We should be ashamed of ourselves!

[toxi@mastodon.thi.ng]

@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

[urlyman@mastodon.social]

@toxi that is a *vibe*

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[apostateenglishman@mastodon.world]

@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!