Banned Words

Ronald Kephart rkephart at UNF.EDU
Wed Jan 5 17:54:54 UTC 2000


> >From Lake Superior University at http://www.lssu.edu/banished/2000.html
>
>Following is the entirety of the 2000 Banished Words List

[snip]

>Verbing of Innocent Nouns:
>
>To Action...

But verbing of nouns is a morphological process, not a "word"; how do
you ban a productive morphological process from a language?  And
would you want to?

Ronald Kephart
English & "Foreign" Languages
University of North Florida



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