Verbing Nouns

Ovid on 2005-03-16T02:21:27

Note to self: my attempt to use "debugger" as a verb was, in retrospect, not well thought out.


wrong language pal

mir on 2005-03-16T08:46:02

It is spelled déboguer.

Re:wrong language pal

Ovid on 2005-03-16T16:30:43

And clicking on the link reveals:

Sorry- we have a problem...

The wikimedia.org servers are currently overloaded, or down.

Clearly their servers need to be debuggered.

Verbing and Nounification aren't so bad

n1vux on 2005-03-16T19:03:32

It's only a problem if you engage habitually engage in re-nominalizationification (seldom seen outside Washington officialdom).

If that hack Shakspeare can invent nonce-words, so can you. If you can get them into the dictionary 600 years from now, that's really something!