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wispfox ([personal profile] wispfox) wrote2008-02-20 01:53 pm

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Am I a verb?

[identity profile] metahacker.livejournal.com 2008-02-20 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
And if so, are you transitive or intransitive? And can you be reflexive? (I mean, you're pretty flexible, but...)

[identity profile] wispfox.livejournal.com 2008-02-20 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I bet if I am able to be a verb, I can totally verb myself!

[identity profile] regyt.livejournal.com 2008-02-20 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
According to Buckminster Fuller, yes.

(He said: "I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process — an integral function of the universe.")

[identity profile] wispfox.livejournal.com 2008-02-20 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Best. Answer (and icon). Ever.

Much love!

[identity profile] cjsmith.livejournal.com 2008-02-20 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes. Many religions state that God is love; many state either that God indwells within us or more simply that we are God; current usage in my local area vociferously insists that love is a verb. Therefore you are a verb.

[identity profile] wispfox.livejournal.com 2008-02-20 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Wait, don't I have to believe in the initial premise of a God in order to be a verb, then?

Not that I disagree that love is in us all as well as a verb. That might be sufficient for me to be a verb. ;)

[identity profile] xiphias.livejournal.com 2008-02-20 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Isn't everyone?

[identity profile] wcg.livejournal.com 2008-02-20 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course. Doesn't everyone want to conjugate with you?

[identity profile] wispfox.livejournal.com 2008-02-20 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
*bursts out laughing* Ok, you and [livejournal.com profile] regyt now tie for best comment ever. :)

I love the questions game.

[identity profile] the-xtina.livejournal.com 2008-02-20 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Is today Tuesday?

Re: I love the questions game.

[identity profile] wispfox.livejournal.com 2008-02-20 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Is there a squirrel on my head?

Re: I love the questions game.

[identity profile] the-xtina.livejournal.com 2008-02-20 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Is there a greater-than-zero chance of your chair spontaneously combusting?

You mean like this?

[identity profile] ratatosk.livejournal.com 2008-02-20 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Bright sunlight wispfoxed through the open window as she yawned and wispfoxed the hair from her eyes. Out in the yard she could hear the sound of birds wispfoxing. A gentle breeze, warm for the first time in months, wispfoxed the curtains. She wispfoxed back the covers, wispfoxing the cat, who wispfoxed onto the floor, wispfoxing loudly. It was a Saturday, so there was no real need for her to wispfox, and it wasn't like her roommates would wispfox to it.

Re: You mean like this?

[identity profile] wispfox.livejournal.com 2008-02-20 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes! Clearly I'm a smurf!

Re: You mean like this?

[identity profile] ratatosk.livejournal.com 2008-02-20 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I was not thinking of that! :P

Besides, "wispfox" is just a more versatile word in terms of the range of things you can express with it. It's one of the reasons English is so hard to learn -- there's a whole chapter on it in most ESL textbooks.

[identity profile] ayalanya.livejournal.com 2008-02-20 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes! I should not have read through the comments before responding, though, because now I want to get all creative about my yes, but lack the brain function to do it. Bah.

[identity profile] wispfox.livejournal.com 2008-02-21 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay, verb!

[identity profile] starandrea.livejournal.com 2008-02-20 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
::ponders:: I think of you as a feeling, actually.

[identity profile] wispfox.livejournal.com 2008-02-21 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Oooh. Cool.

One can sometimes have feelings that are also verbs...

[identity profile] deyo.livejournal.com 2008-02-21 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
Is it time for the "What Part of Speech Are You?" quiz?

It wouldn't work anyway, everyone would just pick the questions that they think will make them prepositions.

[identity profile] deyo.livejournal.com 2008-02-21 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
You got "plaid" on the "what color are you" test again, didn't you?

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[identity profile] the-xtina.livejournal.com 2008-02-22 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
HOLY CATS THAT'S ACTUALLY A QUIZ (http://www.quizilla.com/users/myheadphones2/quizzes/What%20Part%20of%20Speech%20are%20you?/).

I'm a noun, incidentally.

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[identity profile] zebediah.livejournal.com 2008-02-21 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I wispfox.
We wispfox.
You wispfox.
He, she, or it wispfoxes.
They wispfox.

works for me.

(sorry for the lack of actual content. I am stressed and needed a break, and you have entertained me. My first thought was, in fact, Buckminster Fuller too, because it's from the intro to Godspell)

[identity profile] wispfox.livejournal.com 2008-02-21 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I am entirely happy to be a form of an entertaining break. Glad to have helped! :)