WORDS that have become "verbs".

[DawnCt1]

Is this annoying to you. Effort was always considered a noun. I have been hearing it used more often as a verb. Not "he is making an efforting" but he is "efforting". There are tons of them but I just heard it on the news.

 

[kaytieeldr]

Impact. And all its forms.

 

[MushyMushy]

Not really. I love watching language evolve, especially as new technology comes into play.

 

[golfgal]

I have not heard efforting yet. Disrespecting is the one that bothers me. Some words like "google" aren't so bad though.

 

[eduk8r26]

Texting

 

[Dismom+two]

I always love hearing Southerns saying they are "FIXIN'" to do something....I think think that is cool!!

 

[minkydog]

I always love hearing Southerns saying they are "FIXIN'" to do something....I think think that is cool!!

Thanks! I come from a long line of folks "fixin'" to do stuff.

I have not heard about "efforting", but I hate hate hate to hear someone say they've been "disrespected"--maybe if they got some education they wouldn't feel so "disrespected." I hate to hear that someone has been "funeralized" too Really? Isn't the word you're looking for "eulogized'? Oh, I guess that brings me back to my first suggestion--education.

 

[bballmom56]

Around here in the professional horse show barns, taking a riding lesson has become lessoning. "Is Susie lessoning today?" Or - "No, she will lesson tomorrow." Always thought that was odd.

 

[Geoff_M]

Our ten year old has one that drives us nuts. Instead of asking "What team are we playing today?" He asks "Who are we versing?" (As in "versus").

Also, one person's "evolution" may be another's "devolution". Whenever I see an episode of Ken Burn's The Civil War I'm struck by the eloquence of the prose of what we'd consider to be "uneducated" soldiers as they wrote home. With "texting" spreading like wildfire, the writing skills of younger people have deteriorated even further and 80 characters is about the limit of an expressed thought for many. Words like "eight" and "you" will likely soon be in the endangered list. "Text-speak" is going mainstream. My wife is already seeing it on tests her students had back in. If a student doesn't have a clue to an answer, they frequently write "IDK".

 

[DawnCt1]

I always love hearing Southerns saying they are "FIXIN'" to do something....I think think that is cool!!

But FIX is a verb, so 'fixin' to do something is NOT creating a verb from a noun.
Edited to fix a typo.

 

[Piglets Mommy]

Our ten year old has one that drives us nuts. Instead of asking "What team are we playing today?" He asks "Who are we versing?" (As in "versus").

My DS 9 uses that one too...drives me up a wall.
I havent heard the efforting one yet.

 

[bntlyclg89]

"Task" as in: "I tasked her with a project" It's like hearing fingernails on a chalkboard. GRRRRRRR

 

[minkydog]

But FIX is a verb, so 'fixin' to do something is NOT creating a verb from a noun.
Edited to fix a typo.

Thanks for clearing that up. I was thoroughly confused.

 

[LuvOrlando]

I dig when language fosters fluidity and brings our world more color. I think it goes back to my love of all things Shakespeare. His masterful manipulation of language to say what he wanted to say whether or not the words already existed was, and still is, legendary.

I think it all boils down to artistic license. If you accept the written or spoken word as a potential art form then you're ok with it, if not it's going to bug you. I view language as a form of art and all communication as a potential canvas so it's all good here

 

[JVL1018]

My DS 9 uses that one too...drives me up a wall.
I havent heard the efforting one yet.

My 8 year old son is fond of asking who he's "versing" as well. What the heck??

 

[LuvCuteBoys]

Not really. I love watching language evolve, especially as new technology comes into play.

Me too!!! Thank goodness language changes or we'd still be saying "thee" and "thou" and talking like Shakespeare. God forbid!!!

Texting

This is more than language simply evolving... texting is actually a brand new thing that wasn't around ten years ago.

Our ten year old has one that drives us nuts. Instead of asking "What team are we playing today?" He asks "Who are we versing?" (As in "versus").

Also, one person's "evolution" may be another's "devolution". Whenever I see an episode of Ken Burn's The Civil War I'm struck by the eloquence of the prose of what we'd consider to be "uneducated" soldiers as they wrote home. With "texting" spreading like wildfire, the writing skills of younger people have deteriorated even further and 80 characters is about the limit of an expressed thought for many. Words like "eight" and "you" will likely soon be in the endangered list. "Text-speak" is going mainstream. My wife is already seeing it on tests her students had back in. If a student doesn't have a clue to an answer, they frequently write "IDK".

Back to my Shakespeare comment But I love "who are we versing". I haven't heard that, and I think it's kinda cute.

I have not heard "efforting" or "lessoning".

My pet peeve is "staycation"... and not because of the word itself, but because all of a sudden people felt the need to create a stupid word to describe something we've all done for years and blame it on the economy as though it's a new discovery

 

[DawnCt1]

"Task" as in: "I tasked her with a project" It's like hearing fingernails on a chalkboard. GRRRRRRR

Absolutely a task is a noun! I hear that one all of the time. What about 'I gave her a task to do".

 

[LuvCuteBoys]

I have not heard about "efforting", but I hate hate hate to hear someone say they've been "disrespected"--maybe if they got some education they wouldn't feel so "disrespected." I hate to hear that someone has been "funeralized" too Really? Isn't the word you're looking for "eulogized'? Oh, I guess that brings me back to my first suggestion--education.

With all due respect, I think that's insulting.

I dig when language fosters fluidity and brings our world more color. I think it goes back to my love of all things Shakespeare. His masterful manipulation of language to say what he wanted to say whether or not the words already existed was, and still is, legendary.

I think it all boils down to artistic license. If you accept the written or spoken word as a potential art form then you're ok with it, if not it's going to bug you. I view language as a form of art and all communication as a potential canvas so it's all good here

Excellent comments

 

[kaytieeldr]

My pet peeve is "staycation"... and not because of the word itself, but because all of a sudden people felt the need to create a stupid word to describe something we've all done for years and blame it on the economy as though it's a new discovery

So, it's acceptable and appreciated when people off-label words to the point that they're entirely different from their grammatical origins... but it's a peeve when people create new words?

 

[LuvCuteBoys]

I said that particular word and the reasoning behind it was my pet peeve. We all have them and they're usually not based in reason. I didn't say they couldn't do it.