August 27, 2007

The "Verbs Bad" Manifesto - After much debate, conclusion inevitable: verbs bad! snarfled from blort
posted by Hank Mabuse 17 years ago
  • Hank life, sadly absent. Internet much dusty corners dipping. Outside lovely, please Hank.
  • There GraMa, mean again. No verb for fast away. (Hell, you can't say you're joking without a verb! Or if you can, it eludes me. Anyway, I am.)
  • 17 year old? Brilliant. But from 2001. Old news. Me, as a result: Snarky response. It a joke. Me not like GramMa, who very very mean!
  • Manifesto including infinitive verbs - gerunds. 'Joking' ok.
  • Gerund-inclusive? Cheating!!!
  • If only we had some sort of "Verb Minx" to clear this up...
  • I CAN HAS VERBS!!!
  • No, GramMa. Verb possession BAD.
  • This sentence verbs good, like a sentence should.
  • I think there's nothing that's superb In language that's bereft of verbs. Sentences, stripped of all their action Just don't create mental traction. Without them, sentences are lists of words And linguistically are for the birds.
  • You stupid, kinnakeet. You without appreciation of verbless language. It BEAUTIFUL. Still, here some bananas for poem: ((( I feel like Frankenstein's monster :)
  • I chastened.
  • The Grammar Lesson Steve Kowit A noun's a thing. A verb's the thing it does. An adjective is what describes the noun. In "The can of beets is filled with purple fuzz" of and with are prepositions. The's an article, a can's a noun, a noun's a thing. A verb's the thing it does. A can can roll - or not. What isn't was or might be, might meaning not yet known. "Our can of beets is filled with purple fuzz" is present tense. While words like our and us are pronouns - i.e. it is moldy, they are icky brown. A noun's a thing; a verb's the thing it does. Is is a helping verb. It helps because filled isn't a full verb. Can's what our owns in "Our can of beets is filled with purple fuzz." See? There's almost nothing to it. Just memorize these rules...or write them down! A noun's a thing, a verb's the thing it does. The can of beets is filled with purple fuzz.
  • Nice, BlueHorse. And the beets go on.
  • Oooooh, a grammar villanelle! I'm tingly all over!
  • The funny thing is that my friend wrote that! She eventually won a Fulbright, spent a year in Germany, and is now getting her MA at NYU. And is about to turn 25. That said, she had a terrible time when she was away on the Fulbright, because it was extremely expensive for her and she doesn't have a lot of money.
  • Really!?? Such a small world. And now your friend's been 'published' on MonkeyFilter. Fame is sure to come her way!
  • What's she getting her MA in? 'Cause that's where I got mine, but I had to use verbs.
  • The Kitchen Grammars Les Murray The verb in a Sanscrit or Farsi or Latin or Japanese sentence most frequently comes last, as if the ingredients and spices only after collection, measure andeven preservation might get cooked. To all these cuisines renown attaches. It's the opening of a Celtic sentence is a verb. And it was more fire and pot for us very often than ingredients. Had we not fed our severed heads on poetry final might have been our fame's starvation. Upholding cuisine for us are the French to be counting in scores and called Gallic. In English and many more, in Chinese the verb surrounds itself nucleus-fashion with its subjects and qualifiers. Down every slope of the wok they go to the spitting middle, to be sauced, ladled, lidded, steamed, flipped back up, becoming verbs themselves often and the calm egg centres the meatloaf mmmmm, tasty verbs!!
  • No! Verbs very very evil! Nouns much like proteins. Adjectives much like grains. Adverbs much like fruits and vegetables. Verbs much like high fructose corn syrup. Still, GramMa, here some bananas for your poem too: (((
  • I think she's getting her MA in some film discipline. Not sure exactly which one.
  • Well she's obviously a smartypants and I wish her well. Good film programs, there. Terrible bureaucracy, though!