Re:Anyone else annoyed that “Compute” has become a noun rath...
by ZeroGravitas on Saturday June 03, 2023 @02:54PM
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Re:Anyone else annoyed that “Compute” has become a noun rath...
by DemocracyFTW2 on Saturday June 03, 2023 @05:19PM
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Examples [...] number in the thousands
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”Examples of verbification in the English language number in the thousands, including some of the most common words such as mail and e-mail, strike, talk,[dubious – discuss] salt, pepper, switch, bed, sleep, ship, train, stop, drink, cup, lure, mutter, dress, dizzy, divorce, fool, merge, to be found on virtually every page in the dictionary. Thus, verbification is by no means confined to slang and has furnished English with countless new expressions: "access", as in "access the file", which was previously only a noun, as in "gain access to the file". Similar mainstream examples include "host", as in "host a party", and "chair", as in "chair the meeting". Other formations, such as "gift", are less widespread but nevertheless mainstream.”