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I'm also starting to hear verbs being used as nouns. "Get" and "ask," for instance. (Ick.)
Not in proper English, not even sensibly outside of those rules.
Library. Headset. Speaker.
Period.
I libraried all night long.
I've been headsetting with my friends.
I enjoy a bit of speakering with my fruitloops.
;P
Kerf: You prove my point by way of reduction to the absurd. Those sentences are nonsensical and wouldn't be understood by any given speaker of the language.
This is a linguistic urban myth. People enjoy playing around with language, which is great. However, just because you can morph a word into looking like a verb, doesn't mean it can be used in any functional or meaningful way.
Should I be scared that I understood what kerf said?
Kerfuffle missed the last one in XavierAM's list. How about "Careful. She's perioding at the moment"?
Seriously though, I get annoyed by people verbing nouns. It seems to happen a lot in American corporations. How can we leverage this? Action that for me.
Eww.
@Oscar: No yuo sdhlnou't.
I understand what Xavier's saying; they can be verbed, but it's fugly.