verbing

I live and work in France and have convinced my colleagues that verbing is fun.

(Verbing in this specific sense is therefore a kind of anthimeria.)

The literal phrase "Oh, with the verbing!"

McKee chalks up the verbing to a culture of quickness: “Brevity is everything in ski racing.”

The hn-grade is usually translated as 'kept on VERBing':

Every episode of the sitcom "Alright Already" had a title with some variant of "again with the verbing."

An imagistic verbing - "We're going to sunset that project" - that sounds more humane and poetic than "cancel" or "kill."

Another verbing, as in the parodic-sounding but deathly real example reported by Robert Potts: "We need to leverage our synergies."

Verbing nouns: James Cook University researchers will be testing the impact of drought on rainforest in situ via a complicated construction of pipes and things.

Scrimshaw's Verbing the Noun comedy album was recorded at the CONvergence science fiction convention and focuses on dating advice for geeks.

Even in today's Britain, it's difficult to spot depravity lurking in bland, abstract words, appendices and subordinate clauses, in the verbing of nouns and nouning of verbs.

Similar lines related to the phrase are spoken as "The verbing, and the verbing" and "Again with the verbing" and other similar dialogue.

A Calvin and Hobbes strip dealt with this phenomenon, concluding with the statement that "Verbing weirds language", demonstrating the verbing of both verb and weird.

A columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald, warning of “verb vandals,” said in October that the verbing of nouns like medal and podium “sounds like Newspeak to me.”

“I’m not ready for you to see the genital references on my wall, the filthy verbing in my applications or my pictures tagged ‘Tuesday — drunk again,’ ” writes blogger Rottin’ in Denmark, in a post titled “I denied my mom’s friend request.”

To account for this, we would need first of all to explain how the form how about VERBing is more or less restricted to usages in suggestions (again, this looks like a linguistic form that has pragmatic rather than semantic content, a problem discussed in Chapter 5).