Calvin: I like to verb words.
Hobbes: What?
Calvin: I take nouns and adjectives and use them as verbs. Remember when "access" was a thing? Now, it's something you do. It got verbed. Verbing weirds language.
Hobbes: Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding.
And then the quote it inspired:
"First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing because I no verbs." -- Peter Ellis.
Brilliance.
1 comment:
This is one of my favourite Calvin and Hobbes strips. It encompasses everything about the philosophy that language is not a static thing. Yes, Watterson is a genius.
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