Hypocrisy
Overheard the other day: "I've told you before - stop swearing in front of the kids, for fuck's sake." Your tales of double standards please.
( , Thu 19 Feb 2009, 12:21)
Overheard the other day: "I've told you before - stop swearing in front of the kids, for fuck's sake." Your tales of double standards please.
( , Thu 19 Feb 2009, 12:21)
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Surely making a gerund of the verb turns it into a noun.
( , Mon 23 Feb 2009, 23:12, 1 reply)
Surely making a gerund of the verb turns it into a noun.
( , Mon 23 Feb 2009, 23:12, 1 reply)
then shouldn't it be
Heather and Bill saddlebackinged all night
?
( , Mon 23 Feb 2009, 23:35, closed)
Heather and Bill saddlebackinged all night
?
( , Mon 23 Feb 2009, 23:35, closed)
Grammar 101
No, saddleback is the verb. Saddlebacking is the gerund, and therefore a noun. The definition given - "the phenomenon of..." - matches the word, because phenomenon is similarly a noun, but the indicator of the word type - "vb" - does not.
In other words, the OP should look like this:
Saddlebacking: sad•dle•back•ing \ˈsa-dəl-ˈba-kiŋ\ noun [fr. Saddleback Church] (2009): the phenomenon of Christian teens engaging in unprotected anal sex in order to preserve their virginities.
If the definition was for saddleback then it would look something like this:
Saddleback: sad•dle•back \ˈsa-dəl-ˈbak\ vi [fr. Saddleback Church] (2009): to engage in unprotected anal sex in order to preserve one's virginity.
( , Tue 24 Feb 2009, 19:29, closed)
No, saddleback is the verb. Saddlebacking is the gerund, and therefore a noun. The definition given - "the phenomenon of..." - matches the word, because phenomenon is similarly a noun, but the indicator of the word type - "vb" - does not.
In other words, the OP should look like this:
Saddlebacking: sad•dle•back•ing \ˈsa-dəl-ˈba-kiŋ\ noun [fr. Saddleback Church] (2009): the phenomenon of Christian teens engaging in unprotected anal sex in order to preserve their virginities.
If the definition was for saddleback then it would look something like this:
Saddleback: sad•dle•back \ˈsa-dəl-ˈbak\ vi [fr. Saddleback Church] (2009): to engage in unprotected anal sex in order to preserve one's virginity.
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