Comments on: Using the word “gospel” as a verb.

By: Luvs2Dance

Luvs2Dance — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:42:23 +0000

"Ohh, that is deep, Jon Acuff, you just put a wrinkle on my brain!"

LOL!

By: Luvs2Dance

Luvs2Dance — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:36:22 +0000

Now that you mention it, I recall hearing someone using the word "unchurched". My pastor once had a sermon saying we can't go to church because we are the church.

I can hear it now: "We the church have been mandated to "church" the "unchurched". Maybe that will be the motto for the church Jon is planning on opening

By: Luvs2Dance

Luvs2Dance — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:32:18 +0000

I think "authenticate" is the verb…

By: Ann

Ann — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:55:12 +0000

English is great for noun verbing. It can even steal nouns from other languages and verb them.

By: Mandi

Mandi — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:15:58 +0000

Don't know how I missed this post the other day so I'm late on the comments.

I think we should turn psalm into a verb. Like when you really have a lot to say to God: "I've got to go to my prayer closet and psalm it up with God."

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:42:07 +0000

Not to nitpick, but "freak on" is not the infinitive verb in the phrase "to get my freak on," "to get [sthg] on" is. The infinitive "to love on" is distinct from your other examples.

This doesn't really detract from your point. Just from any Ph.D in linguistics you're planning on getting.

By: Kat

Kat — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:09:31 +0000

Gaia! <3. When I lived in GR…OMG Gaia helped to make it not suck.

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:45:29 +0000

There is actually a name for the noun-turned-verb. It's called an anthimeria.
Anthimerias have been around for quite some time (ex: "May I pencil you in?" or "Just email me"), and were used quite a bit by Shakespeare (ex: "I'll unhair thy head"- Antony & Cleopatra).

It was bound to happen that we would soon be gospeling.

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:17:24 +0000

Great post, but Bill Paxton is so the poor man's Bill Pullman.

By: The Charismanglican

The Charismanglican — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:19:21 +0000

There's no way anyone can care about this, but that's what internetting is for, right?

My wife and I verbed our friend's last name. She's a really good listener.

So when we go out to dinner with someone, she'll remind me "Don't forget to Batstone."