Thursday, 10 March 2016

Do You Even Language, Bro? Understanding Why Nouns Become Verbs

Do You Even Language, Bro? Understanding Why Nouns Become Verbs

Ah, the topsy-turvy world of language innovation, where the lion lies down with the lamb, nouns suddenly become verbs, and “verbing weirds language.” Consider popular internet memes like “Let me librarian that for you” and “Do you even science, bro?” in which “librarian” and “science” are nouns weirdly disguised as verbs. So is this a playful new linguistic construction or is it time to roll our eyes at the internet, again?

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