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Verbing your nouns

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What Is Verbing?
In a single work day, we might head a task force, eye an opportunity, nose around for good ideas, mouth a greeting, elbow an opponent, strong-arm a colleague, shoulder the blame, stomach a loss, and finally, perhaps, hand in our resignation.

“Verbing weirds language.”
What is Verbing

Now I'll hand it to you, while I referee :D
 
Ronald Searle's cartoons:


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Is that like the night that the noun 'impact' was grabbed off the street and spirited away to a smoky back room in which it was turned into a verb, to replace the perfectly serviceable verb "to affect"

"to affect" feels emotionally neutral, whereas, "to impact" conjured the sound of a side of beef being whacked by a baseball bat. Not all linguistic changes are for the better and I rue that one.

However, back then I was spending a lot of time standing on street corners holding up a sign that said:

THE ADVERB

IS

DEAD
 
Disrespect, as a verb

It bugged me for a while, but it makes a lot of sense to use it this way and I'm OK with it.
 
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