Verbing Weirds Language - LexiBlog - The Official Blog of Leximo, a World Social Dictionary

An amusing look at language and our tendency to make nouns into verbs.

Verbing Weirds Language - LexiBlog - The Official Blog of Leximo, a World Social Dictionary: “The plain fact is, I don’t know. Fads and fashions come and go in English usage, just as they do with clothing; yesterday’s paisley shirt evolves into today’s Patagonia vest. I’m not an English teacher anymore, partly because I’m not sure I speak English anymore, at least not the English spoken by others, like the flight attendant. I feel a sense of disequilibrium when I watch TV cooking shows and food gets “plated”—not electroplated (like covered in chrome), but meaning, I think, that “a minuscule portion of food gets arranged artfully on a plate by a tony sous-chef.” Then, I know I speak a different tongue.”