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Re:Beware of Book Blurbs by kgwgk on Saturday March 04, 2023 @04:06PM (#35024504)
> It really __deserves__ the book.

Maybe you meant to say disservices?

Re:Beware of Book Blurbs by okvdjv on Saturday March 04, 2023 @05:15PM (#35025012)
"Disservice" is not a verb. You can say "does a disservice to the book" or "diminishes" it.
Re:Beware of Book Blurbs by kgwgk on Saturday March 04, 2023 @05:25PM (#35025092)
Re:Beware of Book Blurbs by toast0 on Saturday March 04, 2023 @07:32PM (#35025943)
English generally allows verbing nouns.
Re:Beware of Book Blurbs by goldfeld on Saturday March 04, 2023 @05:23PM (#35025079)
I think it's cool and understandable as a sign of reciprocity.. if the book deserves the blurbs then really the blurbs deserve the book they're stuck with. Of course there is not always reciprocity, but apparently aye in this case.
Re:Beware of Book Blurbs by kgwgk on Saturday March 04, 2023 @05:33PM (#35025157)
I suspect that the use of "deserve" was just the result of a bad translation.

https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/desservir/

Re:Beware of Book Blurbs by ploum on Saturday March 04, 2023 @05:31PM (#35025142)
sorry, I was confused by a French similar word. The intended meaning was "to harm"
Re:Beware of Book Blurbs by bravura on Saturday March 04, 2023 @06:36PM (#35025591)
*disserves
Re:Beware of Book Blurbs by bobthepanda on Sunday March 05, 2023 @02:41AM (#35027688)
That makes sense but for some reason in my eyes it seems weird as a verb; the noun “disservice” is more common, or saying something is “doing a disservice to” something