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The disappearing verb
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- Lemon Quarter
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The disappearing verb
On BBC News app this morning:
"Yury Garavsky had confessed to being part of a hit squad in Belarus that forcibly disappeared prominent members of the country's opposition. "
WHAT?? Is disappear now a transitive verb??
Woof!
Yours etc
Disgusted of Rutland
"Yury Garavsky had confessed to being part of a hit squad in Belarus that forcibly disappeared prominent members of the country's opposition. "
WHAT?? Is disappear now a transitive verb??
Woof!
Yours etc
Disgusted of Rutland
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Re: The disappearing verb
See also "unalive". To unalive someone i.e. to kill them.
In this case probably to get around banned words on social media.
Scott.
In this case probably to get around banned words on social media.
Scott.
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Re: The disappearing verb
stewamax wrote:On BBC News app this morning:
"Yury Garavsky had confessed to being part of a hit squad in Belarus that forcibly disappeared prominent members of the country's opposition. "
WHAT?? Is disappear now a transitive verb??
Woof!
Yours etc
Disgusted of Rutland
Err, apparently it has been a transient verb for about a generation (some say from the 80's or 90's).
Here is "a" dictionary link.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disappear
and another
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dicti ... /disappear
I confess though that I still have trouble with verbs like deplane.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictio ... sh/deplane
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Re: The disappearing verb
Urbandreamer wrote:
I confess though that I still have trouble with verbs like deplane.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictio ... sh/deplane
I castigated someone on line a while ago for writing "disassemble" when they meant dismantle.Turns out that is a real word too!
It still grates...
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Re: The disappearing verb
Urbandreamer wrote:stewamax wrote:On BBC News app this morning:
"Yury Garavsky had confessed to being part of a hit squad in Belarus that forcibly disappeared prominent members of the country's opposition. "
WHAT?? Is disappear now a transitive verb??
Woof!
Yours etc
Disgusted of Rutland
Err, apparently it has been a transient verb for about a generation (some say from the 80's or 90's).
Here is "a" dictionary link.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disappear
and another
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dicti ... /disappear
I confess though that I still have trouble with verbs like deplane.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictio ... sh/deplane
What? A transient verb? Like, here-today-and-gone-tomorrow verb? In fact, a "disappearing" verb!
--kiloran
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Re: The disappearing verb
kiloran wrote:Urbandreamer wrote:
Err, apparently it has been a transient verb for about a generation (some say from the 80's or 90's).
Here is "a" dictionary link.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disappear
and another
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dicti ... /disappear
I confess though that I still have trouble with verbs like deplane.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictio ... sh/deplane
What? A transient verb? Like, here-today-and-gone-tomorrow verb? In fact, a "disappearing" verb!
--kiloran
I think we might have witnessed Muphry's Law being broken
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Re: The disappearing verb
servodude wrote:kiloran wrote:What? A transient verb? Like, here-today-and-gone-tomorrow verb? In fact, a "disappearing" verb!
--kiloran
I think we might have witnessed Muphry's Law being broken
Don’t know about his Law, but Murphy himself seems to be cracking up.
I get irritated by verbs morphing into nouns: Wow! That’s a big ASK. Ugh!
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Re: The disappearing verb
garfsuncle wrote:I get irritated by verbs morphing into nouns: Wow! That’s a big ASK. Ugh!
Huh, some people just haven't learned to language. They're happy to talk about lacing their shoes or buttering their bread, or boycotting Amazon or petitioning somebody for a change of heart, but then they get all upset about keyboarding it in and emailing it to its recipient.
Every now and then, something useful emerges. I still haven't found an accurate alternative to the ugly 1990s verb "to parent" that doesn't run to twelve or fifteen syllables. You know, people are transitioning their lives these days, and that sort of thing needs to be clearly statemented.
BJ
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Re: The disappearing verb
bungeejumper wrote:garfsuncle wrote:I get irritated by verbs morphing into nouns: Wow! That’s a big ASK. Ugh!
Huh, some people just haven't learned to language. They're happy to talk about lacing their shoes or buttering their bread, or boycotting Amazon or petitioning somebody for a change of heart, but then they get all upset about keyboarding it in and emailing it to its recipient.
Every now and then, something useful emerges. I still haven't found an accurate alternative to the ugly 1990s verb "to parent" that doesn't run to twelve or fifteen syllables. You know, people are transitioning their lives these days, and that sort of thing needs to be clearly statemented.
BJ
Can I be arséd to reply to that?
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Re: The disappearing verb
bungeejumper wrote:garfsuncle wrote:I get irritated by verbs morphing into nouns: Wow! That’s a big ASK. Ugh!
Huh, some people just haven't learned to language. They're happy to talk about lacing their shoes or buttering their bread, or boycotting Amazon or petitioning somebody for a change of heart, but then they get all upset about keyboarding it in and emailing it to its recipient.
Every now and then, something useful emerges. I still haven't found an accurate alternative to the ugly 1990s verb "to parent" that doesn't run to twelve or fifteen syllables. You know, people are transitioning their lives these days, and that sort of thing needs to be clearly statemented.
BJ
My pet peeve is sieving. Urgh.
GS
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Re: The disappearing verb
(Yet) another of my pet hates is the term "due diligence", or more accurately, the way it is used. As in "Doing due diligence."
I think it originated in football (but has since spread into business) as in, for example, "They signed him up without doing their due diligence". Yuk.
Grates horribly for me but having made this comment on other forums, no-one seems to agree with me!
I think it originated in football (but has since spread into business) as in, for example, "They signed him up without doing their due diligence". Yuk.
Grates horribly for me but having made this comment on other forums, no-one seems to agree with me!
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Re: The disappearing verb
Mike4 wrote:(Yet) another of my pet hates is the term "due diligence", or more accurately, the way it is used. As in "Doing due diligence."
I think it originated in football (but has since spread into business) as in, for example, "They signed him up without doing their due diligence". Yuk.
Grates horribly for me but having made this comment on other forums, no-one seems to agree with me!
I agree. Should have said 'he was laxly scoped out'.
V8
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Re: The disappearing verb
Mike4 wrote:(Yet) another of my pet hates is the term "due diligence", or more accurately, the way it is used. As in "Doing due diligence."
I think it originated in football (but has since spread into business) as in, for example, "They signed him up without doing their due diligence". Yuk.
Grates horribly for me but having made this comment on other forums, no-one seems to agree with me!
I had no idea there was any football connection there. Have I failed in my due diligence before using the expression in everyday discourse?
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Re: The disappearing verb
I've not encountered 'due diligence' in any field other than company finance.
There, it has a clear legal meaning - and the Wikipedia page for it supports that: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Due_diligence
Apparently, the phrase dates from the fifteenth century, so pre-dates football but not business.
Watis
There, it has a clear legal meaning - and the Wikipedia page for it supports that: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Due_diligence
Apparently, the phrase dates from the fifteenth century, so pre-dates football but not business.
Watis
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