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I am so guilty of taking words and making them other parts of speech. I can't seem to help myself.
Definitely. "Followers" conjures a picture of some crazy Kool-Aid drinking cult and the word "friending" is pretty creepy too.
Haha! Love the post and the comic. So true. I just wrote a blog about the equally annoying evolution–rather DEvolution–of the adjective "bad" into a noun, as in "My bad!" Check it out: http://www.susanllipson.blogspot.com
"Writing Memorable Words" blog
Adrienne: I do it, too. But my English major soul quails. I blame Buffy.
C.K. Remember Friendster!? All the wrongness started there…
Susan: Hah. My bad…!
I can't use "friend" as a verb. I say "befriend" and that's all. Maybe someday I'll change my mind if friend as a verb becomes so firmly entrenched in the English language that it becomes correct useage. We'll see. Taking words and making them into other parts of speech is called a functional shift. It's fascinating (and sometimes frustrating) to study how language changes.
By the way, I think "followers" in Edwardian times had to do with female servants having boyfriends. "No followers" was often a rule.
No wonder that hierarchy didn't last.
Interesting about the Edwardian connotation of "followers."
I've definitely used "friend" as a verb (only for Facebook-related conversations) but it always feels vaguely wrong…as for "my bad," I'm so used to it, I guess, that it doesn't really bother me. I actually remember the first time I heard someone use it, when I was in high school, and thinking "errr?"
Do you all ever read William Safire? His columns always crack me up, such fine language-related nerdy dry humor. When I grow up, I'd like to have that kind of confidence in my use of English.
I haven't read his column in awhile, but yes, he's great! I also like Richard Lederer for language-related humor.
I like Wm. Safire! I have a dream of being that articulate as well… sometimes I feel like my brain is mushy because I don't read challenging enough columnists – but I know it's just that I get tired of people not knowing what I mean when I use certain words.