Oh, to spoiler-proof it, or apply spoiler protection. Ok. I haven't heard the word "spoiler" used for that activity before.
I haven't seen "spoil" used in the same sense (i.e. "spoil a message" meaning what I described for "spoiler a message"),
Ditto. You "spoil" something by revealing the ending or whatever, not by impeding that.
(BTW, what does it mean that the sentence, "Verbing weirds language," has stopped feeling self-referential (that is, all perception of dissonance has vanished) for me?)
"It's not the verbing that weirds the language, it's the renounification." (Marc LeBlanc)
"Weirds" as a verb still gets my attention just a bit (in a "that's not quite right" way), but verbing nouns is pretty routine these days. What bugs me is when perfectly good verbs already exist for that purpose, as is so often the case when goofy management trends are involved.
"It's not the verbing that weirds the language, it's the renounification."
As much as I like that as a button slogan, I don't think that really makes it any weirder, just clumsier (sometimes, yes, pointlessly and annoyingly so).
" What bugs me is when perfectly good verbs already exist for that purpose [...]"
*nod* Sometimes it's for finer nuance, sometimes it's deliberately silly (sometimes both, when I'm making nonstandard nouns from adjectives) ... and sometimes it's just stupidly clumsy use of language. That third category happens rather too often. *sigh*
E.g., "doable" -- one of my most despised words. And, since I work for investment bankers, it's only one of the most egregious examples of verbing nouns that's out there. "Feasible" and "possible" are my preferred synonyms for "doable" -- I have been told there's a nuance in "doable" of intent, though it's not how I've mostly seen it used.
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Oh, to spoiler-proof it, or apply spoiler protection. Ok. I haven't heard the word "spoiler" used for that activity before.
I haven't seen "spoil" used in the same sense (i.e. "spoil a message" meaning what I described for "spoiler a message"),
Ditto. You "spoil" something by revealing the ending or whatever, not by impeding that.
(BTW, what does it mean that the sentence, "Verbing weirds language," has stopped feeling self-referential (that is, all perception of dissonance has vanished) for me?)
"It's not the verbing that weirds the language, it's the renounification." (Marc LeBlanc)
"Weirds" as a verb still gets my attention just a bit (in a "that's not quite right" way), but verbing nouns is pretty routine these days. What bugs me is when perfectly good verbs already exist for that purpose, as is so often the case when goofy management trends are involved.
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As much as I like that as a button slogan, I don't think that really makes it any weirder, just clumsier (sometimes, yes, pointlessly and annoyingly so).
" What bugs me is when perfectly good verbs already exist for that purpose [...]"
*nod* Sometimes it's for finer nuance, sometimes it's deliberately silly (sometimes both, when I'm making nonstandard nouns from adjectives) ... and sometimes it's just stupidly clumsy use of language. That third category happens rather too often. *sigh*
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