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10 Dec 2007 06:12 pm
Shakespeare, Calvin and Hobbes
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A reader writes:
You mentioned Shakespeare's verbing of nouns. I wish I could find the actual comic strip, but here's the text:
Calvin: I like to verb words.
Hobbes: What?
Calvin: I take nouns and adjectives and use them as verbs. Remember when "access" was a thing? Now, it's something you do. It got verbed. Verbing weirds language.
Hobbes: Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding.
Which inspired this:
"First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing because I no verbs." -- Peter Ellis.
Shakespeare demonstrates that when you're a transcendent genius, the rules that help the rest of us just get in your way.
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