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[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago
[-] FanonFan@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Our languaging abilities have been fully weirded by unnecessary verbing.

[-] NewLeaf@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

I was hoping someone would post the comic, but I'm too lazy. Have an upvote

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

~~Descriptivists~~ Prescriptivists delende est. z

Linguistics is literally "We will not end the horror. We will only explain it.

:@iridaniotter@hexbear.net has informed me that I posted cringe and I have corrected it

[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago
[-] Frank@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago
[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Sorry, I didn't mean to own you. I just don't want people confused.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

No, no, it is okay to be owned sometimes. We own, and are owned in turn. Such is the way of the world.

[-] btfod@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

I'm nouning verbs, whatcha gonna do?

Ex: Make health insurance executives an imprison.

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

If you love verbing nouns so much, why didn't you statement that there's nothing English teachers can action to prevention you? You're existencing inadequate verbnouning levels.

You really think you're safe from English teachers?

Don't make me interpret you barthes-shining

[-] muddi@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

If you want a treat, look up noun incorporation in polysynthetic languages. Or perhaps rather:

if you treatwant, you should nounincorporationinpolysyntheticlanguageslookup

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

oh yeah? well i like nouning verbs!

[-] Dingus_Khan@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

I'm so adjective I could verb a noun!

[-] Belgdore@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I’m so stinky I could breath a potato! I love mad libs.

[-] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago
[-] blight@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

I poo on this take. You will be pooed on. I will be pooing on you. I am the pooer.

[-] panopticon@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Leverage those nouns

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Nounverber goes on verbing spree, dozens angry'd"

[-] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

I adverbly adjective nouns.

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