{"id":1006,"date":"2014-09-18T19:16:09","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T18:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2014-09-18T19:16:09","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T18:16:09","slug":"night-of-the-living-dead-nouns-the-economist-1892014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/?p=1006","title":{"rendered":"Night of the living dead nouns (The Economist 18\/9\/2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VERBING nouns annoys a lot of people. <!--more-->Traditional complaints include those against &#8220;to impact&#8221;, &#8220;to chair&#8221; and &#8220;to author&#8221;. And newly verbed nouns are continually entering the language: from &#8220;to login&#8221;, to &#8220;to Facebook&#8221;, and &#8220;to friend&#8221;. But we forget how many old nouned verbs are now totally unobjectionable. Shakespeare was a master noun verber (coining &#8220;to dog&#8221; among others). Fifty years ago, &#8220;to host&#8221; was derided as glib journalese, though it is centuries old.\u00a0<em>The Economist<\/em>\u2019s own style guide generally discourages vogue verbing.<\/p>\n<p>Is there anything worse than fashionable verbed nouns? As it happens, there is: nouned verbs and nouned adjectives. Or rather, over-reliance on abstract, fancy-looking but vague nouns formed from with suffixes like \u2013ation, -isation, -ment, -ship, -ance and so forth. They fill the worst kind of academic and bureaucratic prose, the kind a reader finishes and wonders why all those words just don\u2019t seem to mean anything.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNominalisation\u201d, the name for this phenomenon, is criticised by Steven Pinker, a Harvard psycholinguist, in his new book &#8220;The Sense of Style&#8221; (reviewed\u00a0Continue reading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VERBING nouns annoys a lot of people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,13,65,56],"tags":[147,148,149],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}