Verbing Again

[Jim Parish]

Sorry about the slashes; they're the remnants of formatting that I 
should have deleted.

Jim Parish

On 9/13/2014 8:22 PM, Jim Parish wrote:
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>   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/."
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> /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.)
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> /Source:/
> /http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/08/1328135/-Could-marriage-equality-help-the-presidential-dreams-of-Republican-Rob-Portman-Um-no
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> Jim Parish
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