Wait a minute, did you just "noun" irk? I'm irked.
Wait a minute, did you just "verb" noun? I'm adjectived
Did you just adjective adjective?
Technically he just verbed the noun 'adjective'
No, it’s used as an adjective here
Yes it is called "verbing"
When people say they grok something it hurts me deep inside.
Why?
Maybe because to truly grok a person, you have to eat them [1]. I’d imagine that could hurt that person deep inside if they were alive when you started.
[1] Per the end of A Stranger In a Strange Land
I wonder if that whale groks Michael Packard.
Eating someone isn’t required to grok them in a Stranger in a Strange Land, it’s an aid in doing so.
Yeah, tell me about it. People nouning things... argh, eyeroll.
What’s a better noun for “abstract resource I can use to do computations on?” Because computer is too general — literally encompassing everything, or too specific — as a synonym for a PC.