[PLUG-TALK] A weighty subject for English speakers

[Gregory Salter]

for me, the best example of Noun verbifcation is the word Moon. having been in 4th grade when Ray Stevens unleashed The Streak, and a hockey movie by the name of Slapshot debuted, the term Moon also gained the definetion of showing one's buttocks at someone, this practice was given the name Mooning, so to me, Moon is a noun or verb depending on usage in the sentence that it's in. 

hope I am not weird for following this,Gregory


      From: Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
 To: Off-topic and potentially flammable discussion <plug-talk at pdxlinux.org> 
 Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 5:39 AM
 Subject: Re: [PLUG-TALK] A weighty subject for English speakers
   
On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, John Jason Jordan wrote:

> 'Poland' is Pole-land, i.e., land of the Poles.

  Same with the stans, home of the afgans, pakis, tzadiks, etc.

> The origin of these vowel shifts goes back at least as far as
> Indo-European, spoken ~6,000 years ago. Many nouns and verbs underwent
> vowel shifts as a syntactic feature - for nouns, to mark plural, for
> verbs, to mark past  and perfect forms. Although vastly reduced in
> present day English, we still have many of these. Nouns and verbs that
> undergo vowel shifts are called 'strong' and those that do not are
> called 'weak.'

  And I strongly encourage speakers to avoid noun verbification.

Regards,

Rich
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