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   Kind&Kinder said, about 22 hours 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 said, about 22 hours 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 said, about 18 hours ago

   boring…..?
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   Apikoros said, about 17 hours ago

   Verbing weirds language.
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   shipl14 said, about 13 hours ago

   I don’t think I can participle in this
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   Godfreydaniel said, about 13 hours ago

   @SusanSunshine
   My 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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