Cents Quote by Erez Lieberman Aiden

I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me…

— Steven Pinker

In English every word can be verbed.

— Alan Perlis

Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Verbing weirds language.

— Bill Watterson

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

— Alan Perlis

“Anyone who has tried to learn a foreign language knows only too dearly that languages can be full of pointless irregularities that increase complexity…

— Guy Deutscher

Verbs. All of them tiring.

— Charles Frazier

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.

— Edward Sapir

If you go through any newspaper or magazine and look for active, kicking verbs in the sentences, you will realize that this lack of…

— Rudolf Flesch

“Although Pirahã nouns are simple, Pirahã verbs are much more complicated. Each verb can have as many as sixteen suffixes—that is, up to sixteen…

— Daniel L. Everett

The worst of this sorry bunch of semi-educated losers are those who seem to glory in being irritated by nouns becoming verbs. How dense…

— Stephen Fry

Consider incompleteness as a verb.

— Anne Carson