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Re:The Ivy League Was Another Planet by ezequiel-garzon on Sunday March 31, 2013 @04:13PM (#5470027)
And you just taught me that "ape" is a verb! I know, really off topic...
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Re:The Ivy League Was Another Planet by Someone on Monday April 01, 2013 @06:17AM (#5472247)
In English, you can verb any noun.

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/15473/is-it-possi... even has an example of verbing an adjective in Calvin and Hobbes: http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/01/25 (found via http://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/)

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Re:The Ivy League Was Another Planet by dspeyer on Monday April 01, 2013 @11:40PM (#5477568)
The verb ape is not simply a verbed version of the noun. It means "shallowly imitate".
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