"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*
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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*