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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:26am on 2006-08-30 under ,

"'Verbing Weirds Language' only if you're expecting it to work in a simple way.
This is a special case of the more general truth that Language Weirds."
-- John Lawler, "Verbing Nouns"

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posted by [identity profile] metahacker.livejournal.com at 12:39pm on 2006-08-30
Ooh, good argument there for use of the reflexive case.
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posted by [identity profile] dmk.livejournal.com at 03:57pm on 2006-08-30

I just bought this quotation on a button from Nancy:

First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds the language. Then they arrival for the nouns and I speech nothing because I no verbs.

And another favorite I own:
It isn't the verbing that weirds the language, it's the renounification.

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