[Ads-l] Verb or typo?

[Laurence Horn]

> On Oct 15, 2018, at 11:48 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> I can recall a time when it was considered very weird to say, "the way to
> parent.”

“Parent, v.” was a kind of back-formation from the existing gerund “parenting”.  Around the same time as “How to Parent” there was the spinoff verb “to father”.  Books on “How to Father” coming out at that time would have been located on a different shelf in the bookstore from where they would have been found (if at all) in earlier decades.


> 
> Unfortunately, not a typo.
> 
> JL
> 
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 11:06 AM David Barnhart <dbarnhart at highlands.com>
> wrote:
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>> Definitely a verb, especially with the source being advertising
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>> On Oct 15, 2018, at 10:28 AM, Marc Sacks <msacksg at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>>> Probably not a typo. Lately I've been hearing an ad saying "Around here,
>> we
>>> Honda."
>>> 
>>> This led me to wonder how this would work in other languages:
>>> 
>>> "Nosotros hondamos"?
>>> "Wir honden?"
>>> "Nous hondons?"
>>> "Anu hondenu?"
>>> Or how about Latin: "Hondamus", Or, let'ss Honda: "Hondemus!" (Assuming
>>> second cojugation, but take your pick.)
>>> 
>>> Marc Sacks
>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 8:57 AM Mark Mandel <mark.a.mandel at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>>> Mark
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