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[arliss]

Whoa. It's spelled whoa.

When you take a breath, you breathe.

When you smooth cream on a burn, you soothe it.

When someone gives a present to him(and me), or (him and)me, we say thank you.

When he(and I) or (he and)I want to go somewhere, we book tickets.

When he lays me down on the bed, I may have laid here since yesterday, and I will lie here till I'm ready to rise.

He may be prostrate with pain, if his prostate is injured.

Not everybody fists something, just because it's a new, popular, and rapidly becoming cliche'd way to use a noun.

More as I think of them. Thank you for your attention.

Comments

[fufaraw]

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.

[debg.livejournal.com]

Um.

Think I shall reply in my own journal.

[jenlp.livejournal.com]

Oh, ha! Yeah, yeah. I see what you mean now. It wasn't verbing a noun, but for a while in SG-1 fic, everyone's T-shirt/jacket/sweater/what have you got "rucked" during the preamble to sex. Or just whenever the opportunity arose for rucking, it seemed.

Like when Dean was attacking Metallicar with the crowbar... total rucking of the shirt description opportunity. ::is lost in reverie:: I mean, perfectly legitimate use of the word, and all...

Hell. Who am I to talk about anything? I am a total ellipsis abuser, and an unapologetic one at that. They're just so handy!