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@fontana You're saying you don't "verb" your nouns?
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@fontana, the contradiction of "could care less" has always bothered me. It's akin to the Boston-locals favorite "irregardless".
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@bkuhn I always heard those as unfinished sentiments with opposite conclusions. "I could[n't] care less if…"
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@bkuhn irregardless I could care less for real.
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@fontana,∃ many reasons other than grammar to be bothered by "I can't get no satisfaction". I'm not bothered by bad grammar done on purpose.
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@fontana One can carp without being #prescriptivist: "We cannot stem linguistic change, but we can drag our feet." W.V.O. Quine.
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@lnxwalt280 Verbing nouns is the new hotness. You'd have to be idioting not to realise that.
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@fontana That requires a ponder. And, perhaps more data than dent-stream yields. (Did you do any philosophy of law in law school?)
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@fontana Not 1 of my bugbears, though I do eschew it & can understand deeper aversion. Lately, scope mistakes with not and only !enrage me.
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@lnxwalt280 Esperanto does that all the time. To say "the sky is blue", one can say roughly, "the sky blues".
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@fontana Nice. I have a very amateur interest in phil of law; it has always been something I wish I had time to read more of.
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@lnxwalt280 (Doing it with nouns becomes complex, and there are rules that wouldn't fit on one post.)
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@lnxwalt280 I verb the hell out of my nouns, if you know what I mean
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@patrickniedzielski @douglasawh I do sometimes verb my nouns. I then re-noun them by appending "-ification"
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