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[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Are they using Luigi as a verb?

[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 months ago

They sure are.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes. In German pretty much any Noun, Verb or Adjective can be transformed into the other forms.

As for names "merkeln" -> to just sit in place and do nothing and "lindnern" -> to sabotage group works at last minute have made it into youth language at some point.

Especially verbs are quite versatile in German as you can use particles with them. So you could also say "herummerkeln" -> to merkel around, if it is particularly obnoxious.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

To me using a name like a verb in English like this makes perfect sense.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

But verbing nouns weirds language..

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Sokath, his eyes uncovered.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes. You're on the domestic terrorist list now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

That list so big at this point they might as well just call it a Census.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yes, like googling that comes from Google.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Shake my bam dead