Showing posts with label voun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label voun. Show all posts

Sunday, September 14, 2014

Nerb or Voun...you decide

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
-Robert A. Heinlein-

Take some time and reflect on two basic parts of speach. The noun and verb.

Now, consider these three nouns: Love, happiness, you. Only one is also a verb...which is an interesting thing to recognize. It's like a voun or a nerb. When you tell someone "I love you", you are using the words in an actionionable (verb) sense, but you are also implying that your love is a thing making it also a noun. Looking at the reverse, when you say "I am looking for love," the word is a noun, you are looking for it, making love a thing. Yet, in "looking for love" you are also giving it an actionable quality because we associate the word with feelings and responses. Love may be equivalent to a gift of roses or love may equal a no invitation to an upper class date. Either way it is a thing (noun) that is irrevocably associated with particular actions (verb).  Neat huh? Take that Engish 101. 

If you have a favorite voun or nerb post it here!