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Someone on Apr 1, 2013 | parent | favorite | on: The Ivy League Was Another Planet

In English, you can verb any noun.

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/15473/is-it-possi... even has an example of verbing an adjective in Calvin and Hobbes: http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/01/25 (found via http://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/)

dspeyer on Apr 2, 2013

The verb ape is not simply a verbed version of the noun. It means "shallowly imitate".

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