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jacooper · 2023-04-27 07:20:28

Nobody uses it as as a separable verb

stcredzero | karma 37049 | avg karma 2.13 · | 2017-11-08 21:46:54

This sentence no verb!

baddox | karma 23383 | avg karma 2.25 · | 2010-06-17 17:55:40

Even if it behaves like no other verb in the language doesn't mean it's not a verb. Look at "go."

solveit | karma 3130 | avg karma 2.99 · | 2022-06-26 19:53:17

You can verb every word simply by using it as one, and people understand via context. Unfortunately such nonstandard uses of language are hard to understand for people who are less fluent.

twerquie | karma 588 | avg karma 2.94 · | 2015-07-14 23:15:49+00:00

Using verb as a verb.

maximus-decimus | karma 1015 | avg karma 1.37 · | 2022-02-05 19:29:14

People just don't know what a noun, verb or possessive adjective are. For some reason school never tries to teach it to you after you're 10 and people go on learning literature without knowing the role of different words.

medo-bear | karma 1612 | avg karma 1.23 · | 2024-06-17 15:01:50

The only "verb" is the open paren. Other languages just make this simple and fundamental rule way more complicated.

mcswell | karma 750 | avg karma 1.28 · | 2022-01-21 15:59:26

You can't verb just any noun.

m0d0nne11 | karma 47 | avg karma 0.72 · | 2023-11-15 07:54:56

This sentence no verb

octos4murai | karma 1 | avg karma 0.04 · | 2021-06-13 12:26:12+00:00

You can. It just doesn’t seem as clever to say “‘noun’ verbs”. It doesn’t have the property where the term is an example of itself.

whateveracct | karma 5466 | avg karma 1.98 · | 2023-10-21 01:12:03

but the way it's used here is clearly noun-as-verb

selimthegrim | karma 5458 | avg karma 0.82 · | 2022-06-05 21:07:05

It’s an irregular verb.

foota | karma 6719 | avg karma 2.15 · | 2018-08-25 21:46:55+00:00

It's interesting, I feel like most of the time when someone leaves out a word in English it's the verb.

ShadowBanThis01 | karma 1049 | avg karma 0.97 · | 2023-11-17 22:06:02

Not really. Many of those do not have other verb forms that mean the same thing.

AlexeyBelov | karma 33 | avg karma 0.28 · | 2023-11-20 03:55:14

I think it has merit since it's easier to remember and is more consistent with other verbs. There is no (good) reason for only a few verbs being so different.

kurige | karma 102 | avg karma 2.22 · | 2012-08-02 21:06:36+00:00

It can be used as an adverb though.

skybrian | karma 22817 | avg karma 2.5 · | 2019-07-03 00:47:45+00:00

These words are commonly used individually, but that says nothing about how often they appear in a particular order.

72deluxe | karma 2484 | avg karma 1.0 · | 2016-09-12 09:27:34

Then why not cater for your own verb instead?

gizmo385 | karma 1215 | avg karma 3.18 · | 2020-08-27 20:01:49

Good point! The separable verb things is super strange for me as a native English speaker. I haven't internalized the meaning for any separable verbs so whenever I see them in text, I usually end up having to re-read or re-listen to the text with the knowledge in mind to actually get the meaning.

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forbiddenlake | karma 323 | avg karma 2.69 · | 2017-11-16 16:15:10+00:00

Also: "setup", used all over the front page, is not a verb, yet is used as one.