Social media has also turned ‘text’ into a verb, It’s an interesting feature of English that nouns and verbs can so easily cross over. In other languages, you might have to add verb endings that can be conjugated. We still add an ‘s’ for ‘he’ and ‘she.’ So we’d have to add ‘est’ if we still used ‘thou.’ Therefore: ‘When thou findest old friends online, thou friendest them.’
TossedSaladCartoon about 7 years ago
I think it became a verb when “social media” was invented.
Thomas Scott Roberts creator about 7 years ago
Social media has also turned ‘text’ into a verb, It’s an interesting feature of English that nouns and verbs can so easily cross over. In other languages, you might have to add verb endings that can be conjugated. We still add an ‘s’ for ‘he’ and ‘she.’ So we’d have to add ‘est’ if we still used ‘thou.’ Therefore: ‘When thou findest old friends online, thou friendest them.’
Plods with ...™ about 7 years ago
when the first dip stick started adding ‘ing’ to nouns
DM2860 about 7 years ago
February 4 2004 when Facebook launched and changed the definition of ‘friend’
russellc64 about 7 years ago
I like verbing words. It weirds language. – Calvin
Thomas Scott Roberts creator about 7 years ago
Hey, everybody, let’s language! I like languaging, don’t you?