Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb.
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The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language.
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above.
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.
Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.
Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you to come in under the radar, below people's defenses.
If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.
There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.'
One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.