"weird" as a verb
Ben Ostrowsky
sylvar at VAXER.NET
Tue Sep 3 12:31:31 UTC 2002
The only use I'm aware of may well be the first time it appeared in print.
I wish I could offer you a date for the strip, but Bill Watterson's
"Calvin and Hobbes" comic famously featured something very much like the
following dialogue:
Calvin: "I like to verb words."
Hobbes: "What?"
Calvin: "I take nouns and adjectives and use them as verbs. Remember
when 'access' was a thing? Now it's something you do. It got
verbed."
Calvin: "Verbing weirds language."
Hobbes: "Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to
understanding."
Ben
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