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Saturday, 3 November 2007

Verbing weirds language

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I like to verb words. I take nouns and adjectives and use them as verbs. I take nouns and adjectives and use them as verbs. Remember when access was a thing? Now, it's something you do. It got verbed. Verbing weirds language. Calvin and Hobbes. Calvin and hobbs

I've been meaning to write about this matter for sometime. Until I get round to it, I think I'll let Calvin and Hobbes give a brief overview.

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