Everyone should contact this guy to express support.
In English it seems that any noun can be ‘verb-ed’ (<— see?)
These are trivial compared to “preferred pronoun” BS and using “they” and “theirs” as singular pronouns.
We should GrammarGuy all such terms.
-PJ
Doesn’t bother me nearly as much as “I’m like” and “he was like” for “I said” and “he said.”
“Really” as a filler word drives me crazy. People can’t seem to say anything without inserting a “really” or two.
The spoken language has definitely deteriorated.
When I was learning English...if I’d split an infinitive they’d have washed my mouth with soap and that was not too long ago.
I am going to xerox this and send it to family and friend.
Oldsters remember the use of “xerox” as a verb.
More immediately, since we’re sharing: how about the misuse of “mandate” to mean “require” when the word really has more to do with the granting of authority.
And another Covid-related place to start might be with the very simple difference between “less” and “fewer”
This is a fight you cannot win, Grammar Guy.
It’s been going on for centuries.
Ancient verbs such as rain, snow, and thunder along with more recent converts like oil, pressure, referee, bottle, debut, audition, highlight, diagnose, critique, email, and mastermind all have nouns and verbs associated with the action, thing and action a person might take.
In the 19th Century, Bicycle became bike and then biking...
Computers begot computing...
Text begot texting...
Throw in some innuendo and you got sexting.
It never ends.
Oh, I hate this. “I can’t adult today!”, etc. There are a couple that really bug (oops, did it myself) me, that I don’t recall at the moment due to my superannuation.
Add “gift” to the list of nouns that became verbs.
The purpose of language is communication, and new words are required over time. Grammar also evolves.
This guy probably got a lot of wedgies in school. He needs to find a new hobby.
For the most part, I’m not worried about it. I consider such invented terms as Cultural Shorthand.
This is a typically American way of communicating a currently trending topic.
Two of the newest terms would
to Vax or to Dox. Unless this is some formal or legally binding statement, why go through the hassle of writing out “Vaccination” or “Expose personal documents and data” every single time?
My first full time job was working for Xerox fixing copiers in downtown Chicago
Even though they had pioneered and created Copiers we as employees were forbidden to refer to our equipment as the Xerox machine as copying is done through the Xerographic effect. So it was a model xxx machine or copier but NOT a Xerox machine.
1976
Rock On ...
Instead of needing to google for some information, I will simply go ogle it!
I admit, I struggled when it became common for people to say “We sell Quality products”, instead of “We sell products of high quality.”
This started in the late 1990s.
I don’t know why. Maybe there was some popular movie with that usage in the dialogue. No one seems to be bothered by it except me, so I no longer try to explain and correct.
There was once a time that French was the premier language for science and diplomacy but it been overtaken by English. Why? I think because the French wanted to keep the language “pure” while English was allowed to change.
Words mean what people think they mean. If turning a noun into a verb provides clearer understanding people will accept it, if not, they won’t.
We should especially resist the verb “google” because Google Search has become an utterly biased pay-to-play engine, which will only give you results the authorities think you should be allowed to see.
Has GrammarGuy noticed that, while he’s obsessing over nounverbing, apostrophe’s have been running rampant?