A list of puns related to "Verbing"
By a trans-action.
Because the verbs were always so intense.
Verb, not adjective.
They walks out.
That's the whole story. Verb ate'im.
Wait for it.....
A Proverb (Pro-Verb)
They're rather tense.
I wasn't expecting the Spanish inquisition.
Past tents!
Where will the verb stay when they camping on the moon? future tents!!
what did the verb get for their birthday? present tents....
Did you read it as a noun or a verb?
It can also be a verb.
by Amanda Rin
But I can't fathom
I am pro-verb
Things get a little tense.
But it'll take some sole searching
Me: January is almost done. Then it will be February.
My girl: Yeah! Then I can finally be eight.
Me: Yes, but the correct form of the verb would be "eaten."
So, I'm a Spanish professor, and I gave a final exam this morning. One of the last parts was that students had to write a paragraph using reflexive verbs in which they describe their daily routine. Since the class only had nine students in it, I told them that if they wanted to wait, I would grade their exams for them and tell them their class grade.
It was an open-book final exam (11 pages long), so I was in my office, and a graduating senior finished first and gave me her exam. When I got to her paragraph, I saw that she had written in Spanish that every day she woke up, got up, took a shower, got dressed, brushed her teeth, ate breakfast, and then she and her friend Emmy went horseback riding. Now, I knew that she didn't go horseback riding, ever, but that it was vocabulary from the previous chapter. The following conversation ensued:
Me: Horseback riding? Really?
Her: Yep!
Me: Every day?
Her: Yep!
Me: Every single day?
Her: SΓ, SeΓ±or.
Me: I guess you could call it a stable routine then.
Me: What's on your shirt? Him: Dinosaurs! Me: Have you ever seen a dinosaur? Him: No. They all died. That's why they're called die-nosaurs.
Kid has a bright future.
Edit: verb tense
Note: Quality Very Varying (I see what I did there) and sometimes subject to specialist knowledge. So I apologise in advance. Shame me with your better puns.
While I was languishing in the Language Centre, doing some semantics antics and considering how all the other linguistics students despised and derided me, I was accosted by a stout man with large glasses who made me a preposition. It was that I should collect terrible puns, to do with linguistics, in order to ingratiate myself yet further with the other linguistics students (including even the phonetics fanatics).
I'm struggling to think of a pun to do with grammaticality that both makes sense and "Is grandma tickly?" correct. I'm also stuck on 'morphologician'. (I'm not actually sure that's a particularly logical word for the subject, though I guess that's more for, er, more for a logician to worry about.)
The problem I have with writing about phonological variation is that one is constantly forced to choose between being fun or logical - very Asian!I always get in trouble with electricians, they think I'm calling them a 'dialectician' whereas in fact I'm just saying "Die, electrician."
I like pscycholinguistics β the only department of linguistics where itβs acceptable to wear a cycle helmet. My Australian accent is terrible but I like to think my Sath Efrican one is predicate. My favourite accent is Received Pronunciation, because it is the accent chiefly used by invisible Japanese people who are ordered online. When the first recipient of an invisible Japanese person got the parcel, they wrote a complaint saying "Received but can't see Asian" and the name stuck.
Why did the speakers whose native languages weren't English, but whose only shared language was English, but they weren't very good at it and kept on having to stop to think about it, stop talking to one another? They came to an agreement. (Get it? If not, write your answer on a pastecard and paste it to the below address.)
What did the 'a' say to the 'the'? "You definitely are ticklish, 'the'!"
Why was the small man eaten by the large bear, which was proportionately bigger than him? It had, er, relative claws.
I think the reason there are so many speakers of Russian is because they all partake in an activity called "copulae shun". (Ok, ok, I know, that was Pushkin it.)
I know a man called Hillary who can, might, should, did, must, shall and will ride an ox. We call him "Ox Hillary".
I always think the verb 'to be' in the senten
... keep reading on reddit β‘Q: In latin, when pairing foods with the verb edo ("I eat"), what case should you use? A: The om-nom-nominative.
Two of my employees were discussing the TV show Vikings. One told the other that Viking was originally a verb meaning raiding as in "I'm going Viking." I said. "That's just Swedish for I want to cycle. I'm going Viking."
"Adjective?"
"Abstract."
"Verb ending with -ing?"
"Bring."
"Food, plural?"
"Soup."
(Glares, writes "soups.") "Adverb?"
"Very."
"Noun?"
"Noun."
"Yes, a noun."
"Noun."
"THAT'S NOT A NOUN."
"Yes, it is!"
"Okay, fine ... Part of the body?"
"The."
"Noun?"
"Verb."
"DAAAAAADDDDYYYYYYY"
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