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In reply to the discussion: Do you know what to do if someone cardiac arrests in front of you? [View all]1monster
(11,012 posts)you. Now I see that your were serious. Perhaps you need to grow a bit of a thicker skin if you were insulted by that, because it was not my intention to insult you. (At least not before I read your reply.)
But truthfully, using nouns as verbs is something that we English speakers have been doing for many years in this country.
Examples: (I didn't make any of these sentences up.)
They railroaded the accused man.
I could never marry a man like Jim, who spends his life tomcatting around town.
We shoehorned in a version of the new software that the old computer could accept. (This one was in a
company's technical manual.)
And guess what? Sometimes in English, verbs are used as nouns, such as in, oh say, cardiac ARREST. Arrest is a verb.