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In Reply to: 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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- RE: Not to mention, our resident linguistics guru here apparently thinks.... - Jaundiced Ear 17:25:09 08/17/15 (8)
- Every noun an be verbed. nt - Tony Lauck 18:14:23 08/17/15 (7)
- BTW, forgot to ask, keeping with the subject of audio - did you USB cable your DAC? N/T - carcass93 06:42:38 08/18/15 (1)
- RE: BTW, forgot to ask, keeping with the subject of audio - did you USB cable your DAC? N/T - Tony Lauck 09:21:36 08/18/15 (0)
- I guess I missed that memo somehow, directing to disregard common sense while using English. N/T - carcass93 06:28:49 08/18/15 (2)
- It's just a figure of speech.... - Jaundiced Ear 20:00:13 08/18/15 (0)
- RE: I guess I missed that memo somehow, directing to disregard common sense while using English. N/T - Tony Lauck 09:15:27 08/18/15 (0)
- RE: Every noun an be verbed. nt - SBGK 02:34:05 08/18/15 (1)
- :-) N/T - carcass93 06:27:34 08/18/15 (0)
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