Originally Posted By: Delirium Tremens

Now take a verb, having been "nouned," and re-verb it. (And never mind the side trip about "reverberation.")

Or conversely, a noun, having been "verbed," and re-noun it. (And never mind the side trip about the state of being "reknowned").


I'm sure Nuncle Z can come up with some real world examples of this phenomenon.

 Originally Posted By: Delirium Tremens

As a machine having to process such constructs, or as an engineer having to design such a machine (to parse these and assign discrete meaning to them), the problem emerges: the process can go on infinitely, referring to (or should I say "referencing") itself with no specific end defined.

For stack-based machines, this infinite recursion will ultimately result in a "stack overflow" condition (exhaustion of available memory allocated for the stack). For register-based machines, it will ultimately result in the an "out of memory" condition (subtly different, exhausting of all available free memory).


Fortunately the human brain doesn't have the limitations of your typical finite-state machine. Normally, if a nouned verb is re-verbed, the resulting verb will have some significantly different meaning from the original verb, one of the verbs will fall out of use, or they will become local variants. The same would be true for verbed nouns that have been re-nouned.

Oh, and the correct terms are 'reverbificatationize' and 'renounificationatingize.'