Tuesday, July 2, 2024

Noun to verb--uncivilized? Two

 Noun to verb--is it uncivilized?


In Paul Johnson's 'History of the American People' he credits Mencken as sauing that it was the greatest single characteristic of the American idiom.

OK, le's take the word 'hog' and change is to a verb. Well, it's the same. To eat like a hog is to hog.

Adverb--hoggishly. Adjective--hoggish.

Others are tougher. From wikipedia for parts of speech: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, interjection, numeral, article, and determiner

Determiner, also called determinative (abbreviated det), is a term used in some models of grammatical description to describe a word or affix belonging to a class of noun modifiers. A determiner combines with a noun to express its reference.[1][2] Examples in English include articles (the and a), demonstratives (this, that), possessives (my, their), and quantifiers (many, both). Not all languages have determiners, and not all systems of grammatical description recognize them as a distinct category.

OK, users of thw word, teachers thereof, worshipers of thw Word made flesh...

pronoun
preposition (luther said 'the theology is in the prepositions'
conjunction
interjection
numeral
article
determiner

Then we can go to ideographic languages such as Chinese and Japanese.

There is much to do!

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