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To want to punch people who use iimpact as a verb...

48 replies

GetDownNesbitt · 30/05/2012 21:35

Yes, The Apprentice - I mean you lot...

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GetDownNesbitt · 30/05/2012 21:36

Now punching self for fucking typo in title.

Ignore me, I clearly have shit for brains

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neverquitesure · 30/05/2012 21:38

And exactly how is this impacting on you?

FringeEvent · 30/05/2012 21:41

But... impact is valid as a noun AND as a verb

JojoLapin · 30/05/2012 21:46

I have heard quite a few "actionings" (1N/2Ns? Who knows...) lately, not bad either.
Not so long ago I heard the fantastic, magnificent "we are actioning our actions" in a meeting... Beat that.

TheOriginalSteamingNit · 30/05/2012 21:46

Yes yes yes! Along with 'relatable concept'.

orangeandlemons · 30/05/2012 21:50

ACCESSING. My lovely lovely mum died 6 years ago. Before she died I talked to her about accessing a computer.

She really pulled me up. It is commonplace now, but to her generation who had never heard it before it was Shock

Still hate it though. Hate Impacting too!

echt · 30/05/2012 21:51

While impact as a verb is correct, it still makes me teeth itch.

The ones I loathe are farewell as verb, very popular in Australia when describing funerals. Oh, and medalled, as in she medalled at the Commonwealth Games.

orangeandlemons · 30/05/2012 21:52

Medalled. Ugh ugh ugh ugh.!!!!!!!.

orangeandlemons · 30/05/2012 21:53

gifting

SarkyWench · 30/05/2012 21:56

I heard someone use "bread" as a verb once.
I was quite impressed :)

orangeandlemons · 30/05/2012 21:58

How?

Please bread me? Hmm Grin
I wish to bread?

The mind boggles!

nilbyname · 30/05/2012 22:00

Oh get over yourselves, language is constantly evolving/mutating and new words, forms of words are being taken up. Neology is good.

I bread it.

TheOriginalSteamingNit · 30/05/2012 22:01

Breaded veal cutlets?

orangeandlemons · 30/05/2012 22:13

I bread it too. I love how language evolves, but hate hate gifting.

Until I met medalling (as opposed to meddling (sp) as in meddling with something)

sarahseashell · 30/05/2012 22:19

'upcycling'

LineRunner · 30/05/2012 22:22

I am evolutionising language.

nilbyname · 30/05/2012 22:29

linerunner you totes get it. I bread where you are coming from.

tethersend · 30/05/2012 22:37

PLATE.

Yes, Masterchef. Your fault.

HandMadeTail · 30/05/2012 22:39

In The English language, any noun can be verbed.

Housemum · 30/05/2012 22:44

Incentivise. Worse than nails down a blackboard.

tethersend · 30/05/2012 22:44

Even 'verb' Grin

SwedishEdith · 30/05/2012 22:47

Can noun be verbed? I read "a problem solve" the other day. What happened to "solution"?

Limejelly · 30/05/2012 22:50

'To bread' or 'breading' means kissing arse where I live. (not that I've ever used it, far too cool for meWink)

Hopandaskip · 30/05/2012 22:53

I'm guessing some of you wouldn't like some of our family words then... fridgefy is one of them, yesternight is another.

HandMadeTail · 30/05/2012 22:55

Yes, even noun.

What about if you were learning lots of French nouns, and became all nouned out?

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