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Are you verbing nouns? When to curb that verb.
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Are you verbing nouns? When to curb that verb.

ByJosh Bernoff July 19, 2022May 3, 2023

I nearly retched yesterday when a client told me to edit a passage he wrote, even though he and colleague were still “languaging” it. Languaging? Gag me. It’s a trusim that “Any noun can be verbed.” That doesn’t make it a good idea. Where to draw the line on verbing nouns In my first job,…

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