tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33159158.post6511943480171673760..comments2024-02-25T20:07:56.114-06:00Comments on Mr. Verb: Does nouning bad language?Mr. Verbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04048931596146402872noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33159158.post-63493650049823056792007-05-11T05:55:00.000-05:002007-05-11T05:55:00.000-05:00Oh, yeah, that one's used as a verb already. The w...Oh, yeah, that one's used as a verb already. The word itself was written about recently as an example of overcoming a phonotactic gap in English. We've long had some proper names starting with <I>vl-</I> (<I>Vlach, Vladimir, Vladivostok</I>), but no common nouns, it seems. That discussion was in G. Iverson & J. Salmons' 2005 paper in the<I> Journal of English Linguistics</I>, called "Filling the Gap: English tense vowel plus final /ลก/". That journal is available online through a lot of university libraries, I think.Mr. Verbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04048931596146402872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33159158.post-10959393252827967592007-05-10T16:38:00.000-05:002007-05-10T16:38:00.000-05:00So this is sort of off-topic but I wanted to post ...So this is sort of off-topic but I wanted to post it. Here's a sentence from a Dell webpage:<BR/>"Here's a vlog from Judy Chavis, a Director in Dell's Product Group for more about this development." Vlog? This is being used as a noun, but will we also soon see people vlogging? (maybe this already exists, but I have never heard of it). That has to be one of the coolest words I've learned recently. Just looks so Dutch!<BR/><BR/>Quote from here:http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/category/1021.aspxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com