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In Reply to: RE: Not to mention, our resident linguistics guru here apparently thinks.... posted by carcass93 on August 17, 2015 at 09:39:34
carcass93 said: "...our resident linguistics guru here apparently thinks... that "grammar Nazi" is a verb.
Oh, the irony..."
The use of nouns as verbs is called "verbing," a subset of the more generalized anthimeria, where one part of speech is used as another part of speech. Look it up. It is common usage in English and has been so for centuries.
JE
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I USB cabled my DAC after I un-SPDIF cabled my DAC and I un-Firewired my DAC. I did this for fear of inadventantly looping my ground.
Tony Lauck
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and a way to have fun with language.
JE
I heard that phrase from a co-worker 25 years ago.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
Every noun an be verbed
but can a verb be indefinite articled ?
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