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Imma fan bleeve it or not of How U R willing to PUSH DA ENVELOPE. DAT IS ALL.

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O wow. That means a lot coming from you. 🙏🏻

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@jennzuko — This “compute” is a weird example of how verbs are changed (increasingly?) into nouns; an action made thing, made virtual perhaps? Have you devised any theories regarding why this change of verb to noun is apace in jargoning circles?

In reference to your embodying Shakespeare comment: have you read Peter Brook’s “The Empty Space”? Brook refers to his experience directing actors who intuitively overdramatise Shakespeare to histrionic levels while they aim to be historically accurate; instead their interpretations become crude, compromised with loudness, and unlikely to be accurate as representations of the portrayed historic aesthetic. It seems unlikely that one could be embodied much by text when text is fathomed at such a superficial level it can only dwell in melodrama. Thanks for posting.

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Thanks for commenting!

As far as nouning verbs go, I haven’t really formulated a theory beyond my Musings, but what I’d say if pressed is: I wonder if it has to do with taking an active word and making it inactive? But then I think we’d have to look at the use of each nounified word to see how they’re functioning before coming up with a thesis.

And: why yes! Brook’s work was one of the seminal texts in acting school--we studied it and Grotowski deeply. I actually delve a little further into Brook’s Deadly Theatre concept from Empty Space in my two-part rant about Method acting, the second part in particular: https://jenn5c3s4.substack.com/p/method-realism-part-2

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I see this.....

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Yes sir. Glad you do.

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Dec 22, 2023Liked by Jenn Zuko

You'd have to pay me to translate that...

Appreciate the exercise, though. Does anyone ... actually talk like that?

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They absolutely do. It’s a fascinating system of jargon, actually--a fun study.

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Dec 22, 2023Liked by Jenn Zuko

Wow.

You know, I run away screaming from academics when they do that... Although, looking at some of my past work ...

Let's circle back. ;P It's supposed to be a transitional phrase! That we grow out of!

Ok, now seriously, some sociological analysis. I've spent years observing various linguistic communities, and jargon typically serves a primary function of group membership and secondly of hierarchy.

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