tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33159158.post8234703026302264683..comments2024-02-25T20:07:56.114-06:00Comments on Mr. Verb: The semantic derogation of verbing?Mr. Verbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04048931596146402872noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33159158.post-78039089966559245532008-04-23T10:48:00.000-05:002008-04-23T10:48:00.000-05:00Well all the put-downs are fun, and perhaps "today...Well all the put-downs are fun, and perhaps "today" it's hard to understand what Fuller meant. But such comments are actually just unconscious put-downs of the increasingly polluted cultural waters we swim in. You've got to shut off your tv and radio for two weeks before you can begin to think sanely again.<BR/><BR/>Very simply (after the media detox period) it appears that Fuller sees how everyone experiences themselves as trivial subjects and/or victimized objects. They are condensed actualities, butterflies without wings. Ugh. Their potentiality, if ever it was, is gone now.<BR/><BR/>Verbs are not simply "active." Gosh, they could be passive. Hmm. What about deponents -- passive in form, active in meaning? Verbs move about in time, in mood. Verbs have that more-than-merely-actual quality.<BR/><BR/>Yeah. Well excuse me if I misunderstood, and an attempt at a serious answer was not wanted. Oh, yeah. <I>In principio erat verbum.</I> Verbum not nomen.jhbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01798878582695445936noreply@blogger.com