a new complement-taking verb

[Arnold Zwicky]

i suppose it was inevitable, given the metaphorical extension of
"masturbate" i talked about briefly a little while ago.  here's a
sentence from a posting to the newsgroup sci.lang today (from a poster
notably down on the chinese):

 >While Chinese dorks were masturbating how great their Chinese
 >character inventions were, Koreans took a step further to educate
 >the common people.

arnold (zwicky at csli.stanford.edu)