Comments on: Verbing Nouns http://www.dailywritingtips.com/verbing-nouns/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:00:10 -0600 hourly 1 By: Cliff Hathcock http://www.dailywritingtips.com/verbing-nouns/comment-page-1/#comment-167749 Cliff Hathcock Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:01:26 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=2615#comment-167749 As Calvin expained to Hobbes, "Verbing wierds language." As Calvin expained to Hobbes, “Verbing wierds language.”

]]> By: Kevin http://www.dailywritingtips.com/verbing-nouns/comment-page-1/#comment-159699 Kevin Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:35:44 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=2615#comment-159699 I loathe the use of "conversate" in the place of converse. I loathe the use of “conversate” in the place of converse.

]]> By: Brendan http://www.dailywritingtips.com/verbing-nouns/comment-page-1/#comment-149650 Brendan Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:42:38 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=2615#comment-149650 Like Mandarin, English is an isolating, analytic language, and so one doesn't need to make any morphological changes to a noun in order to turn it into a verb. One simply needs to change its position within a sentence; you'll readily understand what I mean if I say that I cheese a pizza or shoe a child, and verbs so derived from nouns sometimes gain acceptance in standard written English. Such was the case with the word "access", which used to be something one gained, not something one did. Like Mandarin, English is an isolating, analytic language, and so one doesn’t need to make any morphological changes to a noun in order to turn it into a verb. One simply needs to change its position within a sentence; you’ll readily understand what I mean if I say that I cheese a pizza or shoe a child, and verbs so derived from nouns sometimes gain acceptance in standard written English. Such was the case with the word “access”, which used to be something one gained, not something one did.

]]> By: Brad K. http://www.dailywritingtips.com/verbing-nouns/comment-page-1/#comment-149606 Brad K. Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:11:57 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=2615#comment-149606 I see that verbing nouns isn't all that new. The quote "Dost thou “thou” me, thou dog?!" is mentioned in the article "O Second Person Singular, Where Art Thou?" http://www.dailywritingtips.com/o-second-person-singular-where-art-thou/ Here, "thou" gets verbed, as being "addressed as thou". Does this mean that verbing nouns is a fundamental aspect of English, and not a modern outrage? I see that verbing nouns isn’t all that new. The quote “Dost thou “thou” me, thou dog?!” is mentioned in the article “O Second Person Singular, Where Art Thou?”
http://www.dailywritingtips.co.....-art-thou/

Here, “thou” gets verbed, as being “addressed as thou”. Does this mean that verbing nouns is a fundamental aspect of English, and not a modern outrage?

]]> By: Francisco Luciano Fernandes http://www.dailywritingtips.com/verbing-nouns/comment-page-1/#comment-149078 Francisco Luciano Fernandes Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:31:43 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=2615#comment-149078 Please, Could you explain what is graphopathy and verbopathy? Please,

Could you explain what is graphopathy and verbopathy?

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