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#184723 05/11/09 12:08 PM
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Originally Posted By: Humpty D.
They've a temper, some of them -- particularly verbs, they're the proudest -- adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs -- however, I can manage the whole lot of them!


All one needs to do to rassle even the proudest verb to the ground is to convert it to a phrasal verb. There's not a single verb but it can be subdued by a simple particle.

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Yes, dear. [/nod and smile]

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Darn quarky particles. I wonder what would be the proudest verb.

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I wonder what would be the proudest verb.

Well, April is the cruelest verb.


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Originally Posted By: Faldage
Originally Posted By: Humpty D.
They've a temper, some of them -- particularly verbs, they're the proudest -- adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs -- however, I can manage the whole lot of them!


All one needs to do to rassle even the proudest verb to the ground is to convert it to a phrasal verb. There's not a single verb but it can be subdued by a simple particle.


does nouning them have the same effect?

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Originally Posted By: latishya
does nouning them have the same effect?


not if they're denounced.


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Originally Posted By: latishya


does nouning them have the same effect?



That's even better. The nouned verb is so ashamed by what it perceives as a demotion tantamount to being fired that it will do anything you ask of it.

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To this [interesting] thread I say, "Yea verbally!" and "Noun other"


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