Verbalizing Nouns

Posted on October 29, 2012 by forstegrupp

I love this linguistic stuff. The facility and fluidity of English grammar allows the adoption and shifting of all kinds of words.

Some purists hate the idea of a verb being used as a noun or a noun being used as a verb. But I am all for the ongoing creative synergy of the language.

Here is Helen Sword’s article from the New York Times: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/27/mutant-verbs/?smid=pl-share

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Currently I am an English teacher at an independent school outside of Philadelphia. To arrive at this way point, I spent many years in graduate school researching, reading, learning, and studying and finally earned a doctorate in comparative literature from Harvard University. I specialized in medieval orality and literacy. My private interests include baking, knitting, spinning, and gardening.
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