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[wispfox]

Am I a verb?

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[metahacker.livejournal.com]

And if so, are you transitive or intransitive? And can you be reflexive? (I mean, you're pretty flexible, but...)

[regyt.livejournal.com]

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.")

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

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.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

I bet if I am able to be a verb, I can totally verb myself!

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Best. Answer (and icon). Ever.

Much love!

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

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. ;)

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Isn't everyone?

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Of course. Doesn't everyone want to conjugate with you?

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

*bursts out laughing* Ok, you and regyt now tie for best comment ever. :)

I love the questions game.

[the-xtina.livejournal.com]

Is today Tuesday?

You mean like this?

[ratatosk.livejournal.com]

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?

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Yes! Clearly I'm a smurf!

Re: I love the questions game.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Is there a squirrel on my head?

Re: I love the questions game.

[the-xtina.livejournal.com]

Is there a greater-than-zero chance of your chair spontaneously combusting?

Re: You mean like this?

[ratatosk.livejournal.com]

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.

Re: You mean like this?

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

smurf: I know you were not! But it came to mind, and so...

ESL wispfox: OOOOOOOH! Want. Wait, would that start to approximate interpretive dance?

Re: I love the questions game.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Blue?

Re: I love the questions game.

[the-xtina.livejournal.com]

Would you prefer it?

Re: You mean like this?

[ratatosk.livejournal.com]

Not really! English is full of extremely versatile verbs. You can get a wider range of useful sentences with "get" or "put" than I just did with "wispfox" -- I was just trying to get a diverse set of uses. You can't just put any arbitrary word into verb form in English and get it to do all things that all verbs can do.

[ayalanya.livejournal.com]

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.

[starandrea.livejournal.com]

::ponders:: I think of you as a feeling, actually.

Re: I love the questions game.

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Aren't non sequiturs disallowed?

[deyo.livejournal.com]

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.

Re: I love the questions game.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Would you take a nap on it?

Re: I love the questions game.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Are you sure?