The disappearing verb

[stewamax]

On BBC News app this morning:
"Yury Garavsky had confessed to being part of a hit squad in Belarus that forcibly disappeared prominent members of the country's opposition. "
WHAT?? Is disappear now a transitive verb??

Woof!
Yours etc
Disgusted of Rutland

[swill453]

See also "unalive". To unalive someone i.e. to kill them.

In this case probably to get around banned words on social media.

Scott.

[Urbandreamer]

On BBC News app this morning:
"Yury Garavsky had confessed to being part of a hit squad in Belarus that forcibly disappeared prominent members of the country's opposition. "
WHAT?? Is disappear now a transitive verb??

Woof!
Yours etc
Disgusted of Rutland

Err, apparently it has been a transient verb for about a generation (some say from the 80's or 90's).

Here is "a" dictionary link.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disappear
and another
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dicti ... /disappear

I confess though that I still have trouble with verbs like deplane.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictio ... sh/deplane

[Mike4]

I confess though that I still have trouble with verbs like deplane.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictio ... sh/deplane

I castigated someone on line a while ago for writing "disassemble" when they meant dismantle.Turns out that is a real word too!

It still grates...

[kiloran]

On BBC News app this morning:
"Yury Garavsky had confessed to being part of a hit squad in Belarus that forcibly disappeared prominent members of the country's opposition. "
WHAT?? Is disappear now a transitive verb??

Woof!
Yours etc
Disgusted of Rutland

Err, apparently it has been a transient verb for about a generation (some say from the 80's or 90's).

Here is "a" dictionary link.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disappear
and another
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dicti ... /disappear

I confess though that I still have trouble with verbs like deplane.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictio ... sh/deplane

What? A transient verb? Like, here-today-and-gone-tomorrow verb? In fact, a "disappearing" verb!

--kiloran

[servodude]

Err, apparently it has been a transient verb for about a generation (some say from the 80's or 90's).

Here is "a" dictionary link.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disappear
and another
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dicti ... /disappear

I confess though that I still have trouble with verbs like deplane.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictio ... sh/deplane

What? A transient verb? Like, here-today-and-gone-tomorrow verb? In fact, a "disappearing" verb!

--kiloran

I think we might have witnessed Muphry's Law being broken

[garfsuncle]

What? A transient verb? Like, here-today-and-gone-tomorrow verb? In fact, a "disappearing" verb!

--kiloran

I think we might have witnessed Muphry's Law being broken

Don’t know about his Law, but Murphy himself seems to be cracking up.

I get irritated by verbs morphing into nouns: Wow! That’s a big ASK. Ugh!

[bungeejumper]

I get irritated by verbs morphing into nouns: Wow! That’s a big ASK. Ugh!

Huh, some people just haven't learned to language. They're happy to talk about lacing their shoes or buttering their bread, or boycotting Amazon or petitioning somebody for a change of heart, but then they get all upset about keyboarding it in and emailing it to its recipient.

Every now and then, something useful emerges. I still haven't found an accurate alternative to the ugly 1990s verb "to parent" that doesn't run to twelve or fifteen syllables. You know, people are transitioning their lives these days, and that sort of thing needs to be clearly statemented.

BJ

[UncleEbenezer]

I get irritated by verbs morphing into nouns: Wow! That’s a big ASK. Ugh!

Huh, some people just haven't learned to language. They're happy to talk about lacing their shoes or buttering their bread, or boycotting Amazon or petitioning somebody for a change of heart, but then they get all upset about keyboarding it in and emailing it to its recipient.

Every now and then, something useful emerges. I still haven't found an accurate alternative to the ugly 1990s verb "to parent" that doesn't run to twelve or fifteen syllables. You know, people are transitioning their lives these days, and that sort of thing needs to be clearly statemented.

BJ

Can I be arséd to reply to that?

[garfsuncle]

And I wasn’t permitted to allude to A***nal!

Alan

[GoSeigen]

I get irritated by verbs morphing into nouns: Wow! That’s a big ASK. Ugh!

Huh, some people just haven't learned to language. They're happy to talk about lacing their shoes or buttering their bread, or boycotting Amazon or petitioning somebody for a change of heart, but then they get all upset about keyboarding it in and emailing it to its recipient.

Every now and then, something useful emerges. I still haven't found an accurate alternative to the ugly 1990s verb "to parent" that doesn't run to twelve or fifteen syllables. You know, people are transitioning their lives these days, and that sort of thing needs to be clearly statemented.

BJ

My pet peeve is sieving. Urgh.

GS

[NomoneyNohoney]

Wait till someone inboxes you.

[Mike4]

(Yet) another of my pet hates is the term "due diligence", or more accurately, the way it is used. As in "Doing due diligence."

I think it originated in football (but has since spread into business) as in, for example, "They signed him up without doing their due diligence". Yuk.

Grates horribly for me but having made this comment on other forums, no-one seems to agree with me!

[88V8]

(Yet) another of my pet hates is the term "due diligence", or more accurately, the way it is used. As in "Doing due diligence."
I think it originated in football (but has since spread into business) as in, for example, "They signed him up without doing their due diligence". Yuk.
Grates horribly for me but having made this comment on other forums, no-one seems to agree with me!

I agree. Should have said 'he was laxly scoped out'.

V8

[UncleEbenezer]

(Yet) another of my pet hates is the term "due diligence", or more accurately, the way it is used. As in "Doing due diligence."

I think it originated in football (but has since spread into business) as in, for example, "They signed him up without doing their due diligence". Yuk.

Grates horribly for me but having made this comment on other forums, no-one seems to agree with me!

I had no idea there was any football connection there. Have I failed in my due diligence before using the expression in everyday discourse?

[Watis]

I've not encountered 'due diligence' in any field other than company finance.

There, it has a clear legal meaning - and the Wikipedia page for it supports that: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Due_diligence

Apparently, the phrase dates from the fifteenth century, so pre-dates football but not business.

Watis