Action - a verb

rick_chasey
rick_chasey Posts: 72,738
edited March 2013 in Commuting chat
For people who are too stupid, lazy or illiterate to think of a proper verb.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,738
    Matrix.

    It's not a synonym for a table.
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  • mudcow007
    mudcow007 Posts: 3,861
    what about "speaking"

    or am i just complicating matters?
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  • greg66_tri_v2.0
    greg66_tri_v2.0 Posts: 7,172
    Medal - a noun. Most assuredly not a fucking verb. "He's going to medal!" -> much shouting at the TV.

    Most winningest. Beyond the pale of linguistic abortions.
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  • TheStone
    TheStone Posts: 2,291
    Greg66 Tri v2.0 wrote:
    Medal - a noun. Most assuredly not a ******* verb. "He's going to medal!" -> much shouting at the TV.

    Most winningest. Beyond the pale of linguistic abortions.

    They had some language expert on the TV or radio during the Olympics who said medal was fine to use as a verb.
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  • jds_1981
    jds_1981 Posts: 1,858
    'Revert', it does not mean reply or get-back-to-you.
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  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    TheStone wrote:
    Greg66 Tri v2.0 wrote:
    Medal - a noun. Most assuredly not a ******* verb. "He's going to medal!" -> much shouting at the TV.

    Most winningest. Beyond the pale of linguistic abortions.

    They had some language expert on the TV or radio during the Olympics who said medal was fine to use as a verb.
    Isn't this the point? As long as you can understand each other, do we need to get tied up in linguistic pedantry?
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  • greg66_tri_v2.0
    greg66_tri_v2.0 Posts: 7,172
    TheStone wrote:
    Greg66 Tri v2.0 wrote:
    Medal - a noun. Most assuredly not a ******* verb. "He's going to medal!" -> much shouting at the TV.

    Most winningest. Beyond the pale of linguistic abortions.

    They had some language expert on the TV or radio during the Olympics who said medal was fine to use as a verb.

    I have two points.

    The first is that he was, self-evidently, not a language expert.

    The second, which stands irrespective of my first point, is that he is wrong.
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,329
    Greg66 Tri v2.0 wrote:
    Most winningest. Beyond the pale of linguistic abortions.
    Even reading it in this context grates with me. Should I have spelt that as 'greats' just out of mischief?
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  • greg66_tri_v2.0
    greg66_tri_v2.0 Posts: 7,172
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    TheStone wrote:
    Greg66 Tri v2.0 wrote:
    Medal - a noun. Most assuredly not a ******* verb. "He's going to medal!" -> much shouting at the TV.

    Most winningest. Beyond the pale of linguistic abortions.

    They had some language expert on the TV or radio during the Olympics who said medal was fine to use as a verb.
    Isn't this the point? As long as you can understand each other, do we need to get tied up in linguistic pedantry?

    Your sew write.
    Swim. Bike. Run. Yeah. That's what I used to do.

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  • MisterMuncher
    MisterMuncher Posts: 1,302
    "Medal" as a verb has some history, but was considered archaic. Even in said archaic use, it meant to give someone else a medal, not to win one.
  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    TheStone wrote:
    Greg66 Tri v2.0 wrote:
    Medal - a noun. Most assuredly not a ******* verb. "He's going to medal!" -> much shouting at the TV.

    Most winningest. Beyond the pale of linguistic abortions.

    They had some language expert on the TV or radio during the Olympics who said medal was fine to use as a verb.
    Isn't this the point? As long as you can understand each other, do we need to get tied up in linguistic pedantry?

    No. I can't imagine how dire the world would be without linguistic pedantry.

    Much as I hate 'winningest', it does have a longish history by the standards of most Americanisms. I'm not loving it though.........
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  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    People verbing nouns: definitely a no-no. Nouning verbs is a bit of an annoy as well.
  • UndercoverElephant
    UndercoverElephant Posts: 5,796
    Rolf F wrote:
    I'm not loving it though.........

    I hope that was said with a liberal helping of linguistic tongue-in-cheek, as that's as annoying as any of the others in this thread.
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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    UndercoverElephant wrote:
    Rolf F wrote:
    I'm not loving it though.........

    I hope that was said with a liberal helping of linguistic tongue-in-cheek, as that's as annoying as any of the others in this thread.

    Oh UndercoverElephant (said in the voice of Homer Simpson talking to Fat Tony) - I am disappointed in you. :lol:
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  • bigmat
    bigmat Posts: 5,134
    How about "podium"? Its always nice to podium.
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  • MrSweary
    MrSweary Posts: 1,699
    Languages change over time - suck it up gramps :D
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  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    BigMat wrote:
    How about "podium"? Its always nice to podium.
    And party afterwards.
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  • notsoblue
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  • naive
    naive Posts: 47
    mudcow007 wrote:
    what about "speaking"

    or am i just complicating matters?

    Yes, you are. I am under the impression that "to speak" is a verb and "speaking" is a valid form of that verb, as well as being a noun and an adjective. My copy of the O.E.D. has the following example under "speak (v.)": speaking through his solicitor, he refused to join the debate.

    Am I missing your point?
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  • Phil_D
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    Customer: Can I get a big mac?

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  • Kieran_Burns
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    Phil_D wrote:
    Customer: Can I get a big mac?

    Server: No, you stay there, I will get it.


    Server: I don't know Sir. Are you capable of doing so?
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  • cyclingprop
    cyclingprop Posts: 2,426
    ACHTUNG! - a verb?
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  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 14,646
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  • cyclingprop
    cyclingprop Posts: 2,426
    News reporters now like to keep reporting opinion as news.
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  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 14,646
    cyclingprop wrote:
    News reporters now like to keep reporting opinion as news.
    :lol:
  • mtb-idle
    mtb-idle Posts: 2,179
    I was in a presentation today with an American supplier of a risk analytic tool and he said "yes, we can run reports ad-hoc' ly"

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  • cyclingprop
    cyclingprop Posts: 2,426
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    Phil_D wrote:
    Customer: Can I get a big mac?

    Server: No, you stay there, I will get it.


    Server: I don't know Sir. Are you capable of doing so?

    Server: > (A)bort, (R)etry, (F)ail?...
    What do you mean you think 64cm is a big frame?
  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    notsoblue wrote:
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    Or "<name of company>-ize" for Americans.
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  • shouldbeinbed
    shouldbeinbed Posts: 2,660
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    For people who are too stupid, lazy or illiterate to think of a proper verb.

    That is my management speak blue touch paper. I once got a verbal warning from the boss after he handed me a piece of work and said 'can you action that for me?' I wandered off saying 'no I'll f***ing well do it though' but a tad too loud for his liking.

    I think it was more the laughter at him than me swearing that got his back up.
  • YIMan
    YIMan Posts: 576
    What about turning an adjective into a noun. My personal bugbear "My bad". Your bad what?

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