{"id":4615,"date":"2026-05-14T01:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T06:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=4615"},"modified":"2026-05-01T13:24:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T18:24:41","slug":"making-verbs-out-of-nouns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2026\/05\/making-verbs-out-of-nouns\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Verbs out of Nouns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Let&#8217;s turn these nouns into verbs. Let&#8217;s not.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are going to modernize the application to optimize it and maximize our efforts. \u2014 Wrote someone who shouldn&#8217;t have been writing<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In other words, we want maximum free time. Let&#8217;s make the application modern and optimal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turning a noun into a verb (I love this next part with all the fancy words) is called verbing or verbification. Some say that we nominalized the noun into a verb. Some say this is an anthimeria or functional shift (I really like that word, anthimeria). Of course these examples are affixations where we add the suffix -ize to the noun to make a verb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turning a noun into a verb is also called being lazy. There is a verb out there waiting to be used. Let&#8217;s find it and use it. We could also simply say what we want to say using the nouns as nouns. That&#8217;s what I did in the example above. Not enough long and fancy words? Oh well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We can do better. Let&#8217;s do better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Let&#8217;s turn these nouns into verbs. Let&#8217;s not. We are going to modernize the application to optimize it and maximize our efforts. \u2014 Wrote someone who shouldn&#8217;t have been writing In other words, we want maximum free time. Let&#8217;s make the application modern and optimal. Turning a noun into a verb (I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,113,32,340,66,5],"tags":[226,225,154,342,186,128],"class_list":["post-4615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brevity","category-clarity","category-communication","category-simple","category-word","category-writing","tag-brevity","tag-clarity","tag-communication","tag-simple","tag-word","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4615"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4617,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615\/revisions\/4617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}