What do you want it to mean? It sounds good, I want to use it. I'd like to think it means muttering cursewords at yourself ... but I fear it means putting lace on a cow.
My husband suggests it is going to all the booths at a tradeshow, looking for free stuff. "We'll frilk that booth for all it's worth."
It also could be related to "filking" -- singing parody music especially about sci-fi/fantasy at conventions.
That's a really interesting characteristic of the English Language. That would be impossible to do in many other languages. Now I'm interested on other languages where that could be done.
I have read about our propensity to turn nouns into verbs... or ANYTHING into verbs. Like google/googling, faxing, even LOLing. Maybe someone has an arsenal of good articles about it.
It's not just a propensity, it's the fact that the language allows it. Roman languages have a set of rules that makes it less flexible, like with verb terminations. For instance in French, you wouldn't say google as a verb, but turn it into googler, as that's one of the possible veb termination.
Priority is a good example of the type of noun that is unlikely to be verbed, since it conflicts with the established verb prioritise. But even there I can imagine a neologism meaning something along the lines of "give priority status to", e.g "Did you 'priority' those packages?" "No, I overnighted them."
German works somewhat similarly, you just have to add the verb endings to the noun (or do you mean just using the noun as a verb, without any pre- or suffixes?). Then again, you have to do that for English, too, just not as much.
There's a website, too. It'll conjugate any word as long as the ending (real or not) is -en (the infinitive ending). So far, I've tried livejournalen, goslingen and linguaphilen. :D facebooken ich facebook(e) du facebookst er facebookt wir facebooken ihr facebookt sie facebooken
Well, that's true for conjugation, but the actual verb infinitive can be the same as the noun in English. What you showed in German is also what other languages do, which is not as simple as in English. (e.g There is only one way to conjugate verbs in English, just add an -s or an -ed and that's it, which doesn't happen much in other cases).
actually - to be honest - I'm not sure that I don't prefer this conjugation to 'prioritiz/sed' etc! If you're going to make a priority of something - priority it!
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linguaphiles,
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http://www.allverbs.com/verbtable.p
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I'd like to think it means muttering cursewords at yourself ... but I fear it means putting lace on a cow.
My husband suggests it is going to all the booths at a tradeshow, looking for free stuff. "We'll frilk that booth for all it's worth."
It also could be related to "filking" -- singing parody music especially about sci-fi/fantasy at conventions.
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So in some way it's related to lacing a cow.
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"Any noun can be verbed." ... "Verbing weirds language."
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" - Shhh!
- Don't you shhh me!"
:)
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http://grammar.about.com/od/grammar
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There's a website, too. It'll conjugate any word as long as the ending (real or not) is -en (the infinitive ending). So far, I've tried livejournalen, goslingen and linguaphilen. :D
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ich facebook(e)
du facebookst
er facebookt
wir facebooken
ihr facebookt
sie facebooken
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