Verbing verbiage
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It appears that Facebook has (correctly) guessed I am looking for a house, and given that blocking ads on mobile browsers is not as easy as it is on a desktop, I'm getting interesting ads like this:
Now, while I'm sure that the answer here involves financing closing costs, and as scandalous as that seems, I'm more concerned with the inquiries below:
Apparently, a few people (who want to finance their closing costs) have collectively decided that "to inbox" is now a transitive verb. Incredulous that such a nonsensical (and non-consensual) rape of the language could have occurred under my nose, I decided I'd check online to see if such a definition exists. There's no way these radical neologists are in the right! There's no way the language would change so quickly to accommodate such careless...
Crap.
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I have a feeling of deja-vu. Have we had this discussion about a different word in the last 6 months?
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You must be new. Americans have been doing this shit for years.
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@coldandtired If you think americans do terrible things to english, you don't want to see what non-english-speaking people who thinks english words are cool do.
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@Groaner cest la vie! Descriptivism ftw!!
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Note that it is listed as "informal", which ostensibly means it should not be used in professional contexts.
But, yes, English speakers have a tendency to verb words at their pleasure.
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@djls45 said in Verbing verbiage:
Note that it is listed as "informal", which ostensibly means it should not be used in professional contexts.
Yet.
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