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Re:Korean as a Concatenative, Stack-Oriented Language by bee_rider on Sunday April 16, 2023 @03:10PM (#35593283)
This definitely is the one that comes to mind. It is a special case though, it would be unusual to say “soup me.”
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Re:Korean as a Concatenative, Stack-Oriented Language by actionfromafar on Sunday April 16, 2023 @04:34PM (#35594032)
Verbing. It's a thing.
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Re:Korean as a Concatenative, Stack-Oriented Language by bee_rider on Sunday April 16, 2023 @07:19PM (#35595080)
Sure is.

It is funny that verbing is thought of as a sort of language hack. Meanwhile, nouning is basically built into the language via the -er suffix.

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