Sunday Funnies: Verbing Weirds Language
Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson.
In this strip, Calvin announces he likes to verb words, something Shakespeare also did a lot of. Hobbes decides that verbing could make language a “complete impediment to understand”–funny, that’s a complaint we often hear about Shakespeare’s language. But isn’t it beautiful when he says “Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle,” as one example?
[...] Verbing weirds language. This, brilliant comment from the equally brilliant comic strip Calvin and Hobbes is a reference to the current proverbial bug in my ass, which has to do with the devolution of the language we call English. [...]
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