August 3, 2009
Verbing
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I love this. My sisters and I have been verbing for years. Like, for instance, we don’t ride the MUNI around town. We MUNI. Don’t be surprised if you come visit and I tell my friends how I BARTed you to the airport after a weekend of fun.
If you start Googling like the rest of the planet, you’re just playing into their greedy paws.
In Esperanto, it’s very easy to do this sort of thing. All you have to do is change the vowel at the end of the word. So since hundo is dog, to dog someones footsteps would be hundi I expect.
The same goes for making a word an adjective or an adverb.
This is great. I love this. Although it’s not strictly correct, everyone does it and it makes sense. Why not embrace it?