Agreed, arby. I've been gritting my teeth ever since party and parent were verbed. The one exception is Wordie, where it's delightfully enjoyable to roundly mock verbing. Or to verb mocking. Take your pick. ;-)
Gosh, I'm sorry, arby. I think verbing is kind of fun, mostly--at least it is on Wordie.
I don't like corporate verbing. An example is "A new way to office." No. No. I'm sorry, office can't be a verb, unless you're on Wordie. It ain't fittin', it just ain't fittin'.
Making a word into a verb by simply using it that way. E.g. "verbing weirds language." In this sentence, "verbing" is actually a noun. Which makes me wonder if "nouning" should be added to my list of favorite verbs... Hmm... I think yes.
Uh huh. Of course you would.
I would call them simply "befoulables."
You guys must be crazy at that place, c_b. Those are befoulable offenses!
We nouned an adjective at work today. We made a noun out of savable and printable. And then we said databasable, and almost made that a noun.
I think we befouled the English language enough for one day, though. (Thanks, arby. Glad you're not really a ninja.)
Oh, everything is okay on Wordie. It's only in RL that it drives me bananas (bananas me?). I agree c_b, corporate verbing is particularly irritating.
To life, more like. We're totally relifing it.
So we're verbing English to death?
I believe that there are estimates that something like 25% of English verbs used to be nouns.
Agreed, arby. I've been gritting my teeth ever since party and parent were verbed. The one exception is Wordie, where it's delightfully enjoyable to roundly mock verbing. Or to verb mocking. Take your pick. ;-)
Gosh, I'm sorry, arby. I think verbing is kind of fun, mostly--at least it is on Wordie.
I don't like corporate verbing. An example is "A new way to office." No. No. I'm sorry, office can't be a verb, unless you're on Wordie. It ain't fittin', it just ain't fittin'.
It ain't fittin'.
I hate verbing. HATE IT. The worst is when people invent new verbs using body parts - "he toed off his shoes". ARGGGGHHHHHH!!!! Shoot me now, someone.
Oh. *slinks away*
No, I saw it the other day. Thanks though.
Oh, chained_bear, you missed the whole nounal discussion! Go see. :-)
Making a word into a verb by simply using it that way. E.g. "verbing weirds language." In this sentence, "verbing" is actually a noun. Which makes me wonder if "nouning" should be added to my list of favorite verbs... Hmm... I think yes.