... well, "this article is a good read" is already a timeworn collocation – according to Google, "good read" first peaked around 1920.
It's interesting. The brutalization of "ask" and "solve" into nouns is a shibboleth of the it's all just business to me crowd, just like the buzzwords on their "driven professional" LinkedIn pages. It's obnoxious.
But put that aside, and it becomes a creative exercise: what if the English language had no nouns, and we thought of the objects around us purely in terms of their functional affordances?
... well, "this article is a good read" is already a timeworn collocation – according to Google, "good read" first peaked around 1920.
It's interesting. The brutalization of "ask" and "solve" into nouns is a shibboleth of the it's all just business to me crowd, just like the buzzwords on their "driven professional" LinkedIn pages. It's obnoxious.
But put that aside, and it becomes a creative exercise: what if the English language had no nouns, and we thought of the objects around us purely in terms of their functional affordances?