Does it annoy you when people turn certain nouns into verbs?

Oh, you can't even comprehend the horrors of the English language until you try and teach it to greeks. Most of our verbs are in fact nouns. Dream, sleep, light, pay, stick, drink, mistake, ring, etc. Or the most difficult verbs to teach are HAVE and GET. Have a shower, Have breakfast, Have fun and all sorts of phrasal verbs that have no translation into greek...oh, why didn't I become model when I had the chance?????

I twinge at some of the uses I hear on a daily basis, but then again, I am somewhat of a grammarian. Some nouns DO lend themselves to conversions to a verb, ie, "We will be eating breakfast at..." becoming "We'll be breakfasting at...", and if one REALLY wants to get old-school about grammar, we go back to the original form and say "Beaking fast", as in "We will be breaking fast at...", which would mean that the original form of what we use today WAS a verb.

Ahhh, the joy of lex.

Yeah, it pees me off greatly - summitting, tasking and conferencing are others that come to mind from the political / diplomatic world. This and the virtually complete loss of the irregular past is just another indication that if English keeps devolving as it has, in a decade it will be little more than a series of burps, farts and grunts.

Welcome to the living language of English.

Actually, 'breakfasted' is an economical use of language. I don't see anything wrong with it, and in fact, you come to the point quicker when you use your column of nouns as verbs.

But the officed--yeah, I deplore it, but again, it communicates the thoughts efficiently, which is valued these days.

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you are the sinniest in such matters, and you verb a lot of nouns..Ah you privilized yourself...lol.

You mean words like "humbleish"? http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ArE1B...

Though, I guess that's more of an adjective

I think "Sinnier" instantly springs to mind. It's kind of kewl.

yea man that's almost as bad as caramel.

for some reason this reminds me of that character from "in living color".

he was very articulated...lol