The general tendency to turn nouns into verbs....
... I find more enraging than I should.

I think it's because it seems lazy - you can perfectly well say any of these things "correctly" at the cost of only a couple of extra words. I agree it's not really rational because it's always happened and always will but...

To impact
To parent

These are not verbs! Stoppit!
( Ugi , it's a game of give and cake, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 18:36, 1 reply)

I was told I'd been diarised last week.
Sounds deeply unhygenic, but I'm assured it meant she'd made an appointment to see me...
( wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 18:41, closed)

Yes!
I had the same - we will be diarising the group's annual reviews within the next couple of days.

Argh!

What is wrong with scheduling?
( Ugi , it's a game of give and cake, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 18:47, closed)

So long as you remember...
... that we Brits pronounce it Shed-dueling and its the merkins that pronounce it skedueling.
(karnuvap, Sat 2 Apr 2011, 18:48, closed)

Indeed
I am an English teacher and I work in a shool!
(Heggy, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 11:43, closed)