Saturday, 3 November 2007

Y'know what's a good verb?

'Frequent'. 'Frequent' is a brilliant verb. It means, 'to go to/attend (somewhere) frequently', and from that meaning, all it does it takes the adverb and contract it down into verb form, in terms of sheer economy of language, that's a masterstroke. It kind of makes me wish more adverbs could be transformed into verbs, like, instead of 'I did the dishes competently', you could say, 'I competented the dishes', or, instead of 'I made love passionately', you could say, 'I passionated the love'. AND SO ON!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

CONGREED!

Joel said...

Another good verb is 'Fillion', meaning to cancel a TV show quickly.
:-D

Parma Violet said...

Tom, I couldn't agree more about that last one!
That's the linguistic world I one day hope to live in.

Joel said...

Y'know what? I've decided I'm against the whole economy of language thing.
There should be as many words as possible.
Raymond Carver can shut up, and take his time doing it.