Brevity by Dan Thompson for August 18, 2016

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    Kind&Kinder  over 8 years ago

    Well. he could always reNOUNce gerunds and simply use strong infinitives—or simply say “We” followed by the nouns that have been gerundized. Or stop trying to sound like Charlie Sheen!

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member over 8 years ago

    Ah but speeches sound so much more action packed in “Ing”-lish…

    And grammatically, I’d rather they were “nouning” verbs, with good old fashioned gerunds, than “verbing” nouns…especially when it comes to improbable ones like “securitized,” “friended,” and “dialogued.”Yeah yeah… and “verbing.”

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    whiteheron  over 8 years ago

    boring…..?

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    shipl14  over 8 years ago

    I don’t think I can participle in this

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    Godfreydaniel  over 8 years ago

    @SusanSunshineMy least favorite (currently) example of verbing a noun would be turning “primary” into a verb: “He was afraid he would be primaried and therefore became more extreme.”

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