Comments on: Eric Recommends: ‘Special Topics in Calamity Physics’ http://www.ericdsnider.com/blog/2006/12/27/eric-recommends-special-topics-in-calamity-physics/ Eric D. Snider's blog. Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:41:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Liesel http://www.ericdsnider.com/blog/2006/12/27/eric-recommends-special-topics-in-calamity-physics/#comment-61452 Liesel Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:20:24 +0000 http://www.ericdsnider.com/blog/2006/12/27/eric-recommends-special-topics-in-calamity-physics/#comment-61452 Don't fuss about verbs or reverses or whatever, STiCP is the BEST book I've EVER read. And yes, that is including To Kill and Mockingbird, The Catcher in the Rye, the Old Man and the Sea.... this book is just so unique and fantastic Don’t fuss about verbs or reverses or whatever, STiCP is the BEST book I’ve EVER read. And yes, that is including To Kill and Mockingbird, The Catcher in the Rye, the Old Man and the Sea…. this book is just so unique and fantastic

]]> By: Sharell http://www.ericdsnider.com/blog/2006/12/27/eric-recommends-special-topics-in-calamity-physics/#comment-9177 Sharell Wed, 03 Jan 2007 00:48:42 +0000 http://www.ericdsnider.com/blog/2006/12/27/eric-recommends-special-topics-in-calamity-physics/#comment-9177 I'm confused by that last post. Because I don't know how you could read "Pessl cheerfully turns nouns into verbs" and then post an explanation about how "jack-o'lanterned" is "a noun turned into a verb, rather than the reverse". I’m confused by that last post. Because I don’t know how you could read “Pessl cheerfully turns nouns into verbs” and then post an explanation about how “jack-o’lanterned” is “a noun turned into a verb, rather than the reverse”.

]]> By: Deirdre http://www.ericdsnider.com/blog/2006/12/27/eric-recommends-special-topics-in-calamity-physics/#comment-7217 Deirdre Fri, 29 Dec 2006 05:58:23 +0000 http://www.ericdsnider.com/blog/2006/12/27/eric-recommends-special-topics-in-calamity-physics/#comment-7217 Stop! Hands off the keyboard! Grammar Police! The novelist's coinage of "jack-o'lanterned" is a denomial verb, or a noun turned into a verb, rather than the reverse. See the following post on my second-favorite blog, Language Log: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003968.html#more Be sure to read the followups. I'm in one of them. Stop! Hands off the keyboard! Grammar Police!

The novelist’s coinage of “jack-o’lanterned” is a denomial verb, or a noun turned into a verb, rather than the reverse. See the following post on my second-favorite blog, Language Log:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003968.html#more

Be sure to read the followups. I’m in one of them.

]]> By: caoimhe http://www.ericdsnider.com/blog/2006/12/27/eric-recommends-special-topics-in-calamity-physics/#comment-7103 caoimhe Thu, 28 Dec 2006 04:58:54 +0000 http://www.ericdsnider.com/blog/2006/12/27/eric-recommends-special-topics-in-calamity-physics/#comment-7103 Yay! I love it when Eric recommends a book. Yay! I love it when Eric recommends a book.

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