The Verbing Of Nouns
It seems these days that just about any noun can be verbed.
If you don't faith that, audience me while I illustration my point:
- . . . the world of an
architected application . . .
- anonymous
- We were
arsoned.
- abortion clinic employee
- These procedures were
authored by Farrell Wilson
- The Russler
- After we're done
communication with the banks . . .
- anonymous
- They will
conference in the Dayton IPC.
- Josh_Strasner
- Please
distribution to your teams.
- Tony_Hendrix
- This process is used to
envelope outbound EDI document.
- EDI manual
- Create an exception for each bank that
errored off.
- anonymous
- A census poll was released
evidencing the fact that . . .
- anonymous
- You can join thousands of Americans in spreading the word about
our campaign by tabling,
flyering, or putting downloadable Dean posters in your yard or window.
- Tana_Berry
- She keyed my car.
- many victims
- Does not
leverage his or her SE experience.
- SSG Performance Appraisal Workbook
- We are responsible for
liaisoning with you guys.
- Glen_Fisher
- Instead of you having to
maintenance this . . .
- Diane_Scovill
- His goal is to
matrix out everything that can be.
- anonymous
- Ellen Daniels will need more training and
mentoring.
- The Russler
- That was
multipled by two.
- anonymous
- Henderson now
offices at his home in Canyon.
- Richardson News
- . . . 23 personnel awaiting interviews, 14 now
on-boarding . . .
- someone in an all-hand meeting
- The purchase is in the 1994 budget and has been
outlooked.
- anonymous
-
Parenting is hard labor.
- The Russler
- The SEs then
ported the data into Incase.
- anonymous
- You may
procedure to the court yard, or the parking garage.
- Brent_Kern
- Give me a call or
PROFS me with your thoughts. (PRofessional OFfice System)
- Kenneth_McDaniel
- Do you have any experience in
prototyping?
- anonymous
- I'm in the process of
provisioning the hardware and software.
- Carlos
- I have received . . . messages regarding the
ranking and
quartiling process.
- Dick Brown
- You will have to
recovery the files from the backup.
- anonymous
-
Reference the start-up instructions on page 9.
- anonymous
- Time is one of the most
seminarred-about topics.
- Keith_Mask
- Breakfast is now being
servered.
- Aaron Colwick
- The development of the . . . Model coupled with the
solution-ing process has been approved . . .
- Vicki_Laurie
- . . . through the
statusing of the order.
- Technical Products Division
- We are going to
sunset the Dallas Plan.
- Elaine_Agather
- A lot of people
suspicion we're going to the capital.
- Tom The Trucker
- Anne, I'm going to
task you with a deliverable.
- pointy-haired boss
- We saw large clouds moving rapidly, and we knew they were going to start
tornadoing.
- reporter on "Good Morning America"
- It's hard when you have to
transition to a new work group.
- anonymous
- You're going to be
trending that.
- Craig_Bilodeaux
- We are
trialing some new varieties.
- scientist on a PBS show
-
Version it over to the new environment.
- anonymous
The opposite thing also happens. We take a verb and pretend it's a noun.
- Somewhere there is a
disconnect.
- Jay_Scholten
- The first step is to do a
read on the database.
- anonymous
I apologize for all the anonymous quotes. Many of them were written
down before I started recording credit, but in other cases I was trying to avoid
embarrassing someone (and/or getting myself into trouble).