I just realized that in posting my spiel on language change in action, I forgot to mention the two sources of inspiration for the post. The first is an online article titled "Twitter Abracadabras Weasley Whereabouts Clock into Reality." I think the title speaks for itself as to why it would inspire my last post on how words can be used in different grammatical categories than expected; this was the first time I had ever seen abracadabra used as a verb, and the compound Weasley Whereabouts Clock is just icing on the cake for making that title linguistically interesting.
The second is is a short online article called "Verbification at Work" that talks about the new trend to "-ify" any noun (or even adjective) you so please: healthify, friendify, and greenify are some of the examples they share. It goes one step further to then turn those words back into nouns: healthification, friendification... Our language is amazing.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
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