[stylist] Tuesday's Word: verbicide

[Brad Dunsé]

Yes, the big bad noun with a cannister sprayer 
strapped to its back, hosing all the verbs on the 
page, contaminating everything.  Where's the 
Enverbimental Protection Agency when you need them.

Brad






On 1/24/2012  05:30 PM vejas said...
>It sounds like the murdering of a verb LOL.
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>Subject: [stylist] Tuesday's Word: verbicide
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>Verbicide
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>VER-bh-syde
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>(noun)
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>1.  Deliberate distortion of the sense of a word (as in punning)
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>2.  One who distorts the sense of a word
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>“So, weeding out unnecessary verbs in your
>writing, by use of a weed-killing noun as this
>very one, might be construed as a verbicide? “
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