Sometimes you have to set grammar rules aside...
Most of the time—almost all of the time, in fact—you’ll do well to hew to the rules of grammar. “Color inside the lines,” as it were.
But then there are those other times…
For example, you should avoid the temptation to do what Calvin (of Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes) called verbing—using a noun as if it were a verb—because, as Calvin so aptly put it, “Verbing weirds language.”
But when I read the following, from a discussion of upcoming movies, at the Libertas blog, I had to give them a pass:
”Fantastic Four 2 (June 15): They had better have Wrath of Kahn’d this sucker, that’s all I’m gonna say.” [Emphasis added.]
Grammatically correct? Certainly not. Perfectly apt? Absolutely!
Roy Jacobsen
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