Verbing Again
Jim Parish
jparish at SIUE.EDU
Sun Sep 14 01:22:46 UTC 2014
From an article on Daily Kos:
"[T]he Supreme Court could announce that they were all gay-marriaging
/each other//// /and it would do precisely nothing to quell conservative
fervor against it/."
/So, verbing a phrasal noun, whose main component is itself a
nominalized verb.... (I've seen "gay-marrying", but this one's new to me.)
/
/Source:/
/http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/08/1328135/-Could-marriage-equality-help-the-presidential-dreams-of-Republican-Rob-Portman-Um-no
Jim Parish
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