{"id":39096,"date":"2018-07-07T06:59:35","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T11:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=39096"},"modified":"2018-07-07T09:51:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-07T14:51:31","slug":"nouning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=39096","title":{"rendered":"Nouning and verbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today's SMBC starts this way:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/EnglishNouning.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/EnglishNouning.png\" width=\"490\" title=\"Click to embiggen\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The rest of the story:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/smbcEnglishNouning.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/smbcEnglishNouning.png\" width=\"490\" title=\"Click to embiggen\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The aftercomic:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/EnglishNouningAftercomic.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lots of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22language+log%22+verbing\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previous discussion of this issue<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(And Interestingly, of the six entities that are verbed in this strip (\"verbed\", \"no-ing\", \"I'm-notting\", \"aah\", \"suicided\", \"gurgling\") only three are actually nouns.<\/p>\n<p>Of course there's the famous Calvin &amp; Hobbes comic:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/CHverbing.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/CHverbing.jpg\" width=\"490\" title=\"Click to embiggen\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today's SMBC starts this way:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linguistics-in-the-funny-papers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39096"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39105,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39096\/revisions\/39105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}