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gfish ([personal profile] gfish) wrote2007-10-25 08:07 pm

Recursive linguistics

I know what a noun is. I can define adjectival. Everyone understands 'to verb'. But for the life of me I can't figure out 'adverbly' would mean.

[identity profile] catamorphism.livejournal.com 2007-10-26 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
"adverbially"

[identity profile] sistawendy.livejournal.com 2007-10-26 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
An example of acting adverbly would be when you play that music funkily, white boy.

[identity profile] peteralway.livejournal.com 2007-10-26 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
Sometimes I adjust the meaning of a verb through context, but often I alter its meaning adverbally.

[identity profile] memegarden.livejournal.com 2007-10-26 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
Some people think the word "fast" should be used solely as an adjective, while others use it adverbially.

i thought i should verb this to you adverbally....

[identity profile] tikimonkey.livejournal.com 2007-10-26 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
"VERBing Me Softly"

It was lying beside me, [verbing] quietly. I could hear its steady breathing and the soft sounds of its [verbing]. I began to get [adjective], so I turned to it and put my [body part] around it. It looked into my [body part] and [verbed] me with its [body part]. I began to [verb] and to [verb] its [body part] with mine. It moaned and said, "I [emotion] it when you [verb] me like that."

There was the sound of its [adjective] [body part] rubbing against my [body part] and the slow rhythm of our [verbing] each other. It was [adverbly] [verbing] me and I began to [verb]. I saw its [color] [body part] and grew more and more [emotioned]. I knew I would soon [verb]. My skin [verbed] with excitement, and I felt tiny [nouns] shooting up and down my [body part]. I
said, "Faster, faster my [endearment], I'm going to [verb]! Yes, I'm [Verbing], I'm [VERBING]! [VERB] ME! Oh [endearment], you are the [SUPERLATIVE]! I [emotion] you."

We lay together in silence, and then got up and ate three entire packets of [nouns].

B Janice Perry, from In Stitches: Censored Erotica (Indiana University Press, 1991)

[identity profile] stolen-tea.livejournal.com 2007-10-26 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
In the manner of a word which many people think should be excised from the language?

Intensely, probably unnecessarily so?

Being very much whatever it is? (The Zen Definition.)