And, erm, this wasn't overheard conversation, it was all right here on LJ, so the, ah, fisting, you're thinking of is undoubtedly the fisting I was referring to. As it were. Ahem.
No, you perv, not that. "...hands fisted in his jacket..." "fisted his (insert overblown adjectives here) cock" which, you know, sounds really painful, because to make a fist one closes the fingers into the palm, not close them *around* something, and I'm not sure the first is the image they were going for.
And I'm all for verbing nouns, as it can make for lovely startling image-ful writing. But it's like fist has become the verbed noun of the year, and suddenly everyone has to use it. It's suddenly everywhere, and it's starting to wear.
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Date: 2007-08-11 02:55 pm (UTC)No, you perv, not that. "...hands fisted in his jacket..." "fisted his (insert overblown adjectives here) cock" which, you know, sounds really painful, because to make a fist one closes the fingers into the palm, not close them *around* something, and I'm not sure the first is the image they were going for.
And I'm all for verbing nouns, as it can make for lovely startling image-ful writing. But it's like fist has become the verbed noun of the year, and suddenly everyone has to use it. It's suddenly everywhere, and it's starting to wear.