06.29.08
Sunday Funnies
The Comics Curmudgeon blog—pointed commentary on inane daily comics—recently highlighted a Family Circle installment in which dimly precocious young Billy is reading a generic Dictionary and declaring, “That’s weird. ‘VERB’ is a noun.”
To which blog host Uncle Lumpy retorts, “Yes, Billy, and ‘LAME’ is an adjective.”
Interestingly, ‘ADJECTIVE’ is an adjective—or at least it was when it first began, as part of the phrase “noun adjective” (accent the middle syllable, as in objective). But then adjective got nouned into its present-day use.
In which case, look at your almost-dictionary, Billy! “‘NOUN’ is a verb!”
(Non-Inane Comics Alert: Methinks Billy might actually be reading a Calvin and Hobbes retrospective, as it was young Calvin who declared the classic “Verbing weirds language.” End Non-Inane Comics Alert.)
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