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  • I tried making orange juice from concentrate, but ...

    From henhanna@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 2 07:27:00 2022
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    I tried making orange juice from concentrate,
    but all I got was a really bad headache.


    -------------- i don't get it.





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    A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

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  • From Edward Murphy@21:1/5 to henh...@gmail.com on Sun Jul 3 13:33:10 2022
    On 7/2/2022 7:27 AM, henh...@gmail.com wrote:

    I tried making orange juice from concentrate,
    but all I got was a really bad headache.


    -------------- i don't get it.

    https://www.dictionary.com/browse/concentrate

    The setup of the joke refers to

    noun

    8. a concentrated form of something; a product of concentration:
    "a juice concentrate."

    while the punchline refers to

    verb

    1. to bring or draw to a common center or point of union; converge;
    direct toward one point; focus:
    "to concentrate one's attention on a problem; ..."

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  • From henhanna@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Edward Murphy on Tue Jul 5 09:04:45 2022
    On Sunday, July 3, 2022 at 1:33:14 PM UTC-7, Edward Murphy wrote:
    On 7/2/2022 7:27 AM, henh...@gmail.com wrote:

    I tried making orange juice from concentrate,
    but all I got was a really bad headache.


    -------------- i don't get it.
    https://www.dictionary.com/browse/concentrate

    The setup of the joke refers to

    noun

    8. a concentrated form of something; a product of concentration:
    "a juice concentrate."

    while the punchline refers to

    verb

    1. to bring or draw to a common center or point of union; converge;
    direct toward one point; focus:
    "to concentrate one's attention on a problem; ..."


    thanks.... for maybe 3 days, i've been wondering
    how natural it is (in English) to use the Root form of verb as in :

    ----- * I tried making orange juice from concentrate,

    to mean [ i tried making O. J. by my powers of thinking (concentration) ]


    Did Shakespear or KJV use Root forms of verbs in this way ?>


    i guess in French it's common :

    il vient de partir

    J'ai hate de travailler avec vous ...

    J'ai hâte de vous revoir et vous remercie de votre aimable attention ...

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  • From Edward Murphy@21:1/5 to henh...@gmail.com on Fri Jul 8 06:45:14 2022
    On 7/5/2022 9:04 AM, henh...@gmail.com wrote:

    On Sunday, July 3, 2022 at 1:33:14 PM UTC-7, Edward Murphy wrote:
    On 7/2/2022 7:27 AM, henh...@gmail.com wrote:

    I tried making orange juice from concentrate,
    but all I got was a really bad headache.


    -------------- i don't get it.
    https://www.dictionary.com/browse/concentrate

    The setup of the joke refers to

    noun

    8. a concentrated form of something; a product of concentration:
    "a juice concentrate."

    while the punchline refers to

    verb

    1. to bring or draw to a common center or point of union; converge;
    direct toward one point; focus:
    "to concentrate one's attention on a problem; ..."


    thanks.... for maybe 3 days, i've been wondering
    how natural it is (in English) to use the Root form of verb as in :

    ----- * I tried making orange juice from concentrate,

    to mean [ i tried making O. J. by my powers of thinking (concentration) ]


    Did Shakespear or KJV use Root forms of verbs in this way ?>

    No idea, but googling "any verb can be nouned" turns up plenty of links, starting with (at least for me)

    https://flavoracle.tumblr.com/post/187008716302/bang-and-pant-can-both-be-verbs-but-they-can

    A much more complex question is: which specific instances are generally considered natural (e.g. "pass" in the context of American football) -
    as opposed to the sort of tortured language mostly limited to non-native speakers and jokes like this - and why is the line drawn there?

    i guess in French it's common :

    il vient de partir

    J'ai hate de travailler avec vous ...

    J'ai hâte de vous revoir et vous remercie de votre aimable attention ...

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  • From henhanna@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Edward Murphy on Sun Jul 10 08:31:12 2022
    On Friday, July 8, 2022 at 6:45:22 AM UTC-7, Edward Murphy wrote:
    On 7/5/2022 9:04 AM, henh...@gmail.com wrote:

    On Sunday, July 3, 2022 at 1:33:14 PM UTC-7, Edward Murphy wrote:
    On 7/2/2022 7:27 AM, henh...@gmail.com wrote:

    I tried making orange juice from concentrate,
    but all I got was a really bad headache.


    -------------- i don't get it.
    https://www.dictionary.com/browse/concentrate

    The setup of the joke refers to

    noun

    8. a concentrated form of something; a product of concentration:
    "a juice concentrate."

    while the punchline refers to

    verb

    1. to bring or draw to a common center or point of union; converge;
    direct toward one point; focus:
    "to concentrate one's attention on a problem; ..."


    thanks.... for maybe 3 days, i've been wondering
    how natural it is (in English) to use the Root form of verb as in :

    ----- * I tried making orange juice from concentrate,

    to mean [ i tried making O. J. by my powers of thinking (concentration) ]


    Did Shakespear or KJV use Root forms of verbs in this way ?>
    No idea, but googling "any verb can be nouned" turns up plenty of links, starting with (at least for me)

    https://flavoracle.tumblr.com/post/187008716302/bang-and-pant-can-both-be-verbs-but-they-can

    A much more complex question is: which specific instances are generally considered natural (e.g. "pass" in the context of American football) -
    as opposed to the sort of tortured language mostly limited to non-native speakers and jokes like this - and why is the line drawn there?


    Think, Cogitate, Infer, Remember, Ruminate, Concentrate ... are harder (to become Nouns) because these actions are abstract and SUBJECTIVE.


    Eats (as Noun) as in UberEATS still sounds cute and funny today, but maybe we'll get used to it within 10 years.

    (Grub, Grubs)



    cf... Flow, Run, ...

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    Verb 1st , and then became Nouns, ... (apparently)

    https://www.etymonline.com/word/drink
    https://www.etymonline.com/word/look

    https://www.etymonline.com/word/gulp

    gulp (v.) --------- late 14c., a native coinage or else from Flemish gulpe or Dutch gulpen "to gush, pour forth, guzzle, swallow," in any case possibly of imitative origin (compare Swedish dialectal glapa "to gulp down"). Related: Gulped; gulping.

    gulp (n.) ----------- 1560s, from gulp (v.), or else from Flemish gulpe, Dutch gulp "stream of water, large draught."

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  • From Edward Murphy@21:1/5 to henh...@gmail.com on Sun Jul 10 17:52:51 2022
    On 7/10/2022 8:31 AM, henh...@gmail.com wrote:

    Eats (as Noun) as in UberEATS still sounds cute and funny today, but maybe we'll get used to it within 10 years.

    Until they air one of those "does that mean you can eats it?" ads, which
    were presumably just intended as "we expect this portrayal (and thus our product/service) to be memorable", but come off more as "we expect this portrayal to be something that you identify with". Which is /terrible/
    when said portrayal is abject stupidity or some other strong negative.

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