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pornstarr
Jan 23, 2004, 7:04 PM
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can one actually trad?
....saw a comment saying "i love to trad".
hmmm
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mbg
Jan 23, 2004, 7:09 PM
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Only on RC.com!
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madmax
Jan 23, 2004, 7:09 PM
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No, "trad" is not a verb. In that sentence, you are simply leaving out "trad climbing." Climbing is the verb. Traditional is typically an adjective, as in "traditional climbing," but it could also be a noun, as in "you are traditional."
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davidji
Jan 23, 2004, 7:17 PM
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In reply to: can one actually trad? ....saw a comment saying "i love to trad". hmmm |
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deafclimber
Jan 23, 2004, 7:20 PM
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better ask climbsomething. :wink:
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pornstarr
Jan 23, 2004, 7:28 PM
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In reply to: ...... as "sport" was already a verb.
really?? so i can go out and do some sporting too??
dayum.....
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jt512
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In reply to: In reply to: can one actually trad? ....saw a comment saying "i love to trad". hmmm No, it isn't allowed--even for people in the USA--to verb the word trad. This is an area where sport climbing has an advantage, as "sport" was already a verb.
I gave up on this fight a long time ago. I now proudly trad.
I do have to draw the line with "paintball," though. Not only is paintball not a verb, but it is not a sport, much less an extreme sport.
-Jay
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taualum23
Jan 23, 2004, 7:33 PM
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No, but you could walk to the crag sportin' fresh prana and sick-light draws.
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pornstarr
Jan 23, 2004, 7:39 PM
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oh yeah, i forgot. to sport is to wear.....
ok
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jv
Jan 23, 2004, 7:40 PM
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No. Trad is not a verb. Neither is sport in a climbing context.
sport, vb, to make ostentatious display of; show off.
Hmmm . . . . If the shoe fits . . .
JV
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hangdoggypound
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In reply to: No, "trad" is not a verb. In that sentence, you are simply leaving out "trad climbing." Climbing is the verb. Traditional is typically an adjective, as in "traditional climbing," but it could also be a noun, as in "you are traditional."
How about "Trad climbing is fun and interesting; I like trad climbing because trad climbers get cool chicks." What are the verbs? Is, like, and get. Again, climbing is a noun in these instances, so "trad" and its elongated brother, "traditional," are adjectives.
I think when you say, "I love to trad," the word "love" is the verb and "to trad" is just an infinitive. I think. It's sort of like "to climb" and "to run." any other freaks care to join in on the fun?
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scubasnyder
Jan 23, 2004, 7:55 PM
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no its not
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j_ung
Jan 23, 2004, 8:10 PM
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Officially no, but in an informal setting, where communication in style is paramount, it works. Other non-verbs that are acceptable as verbs:
Onsight
Redpoint
Flash
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yosemite
Jan 23, 2004, 9:15 PM
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In reply to: any other freaks care to join in on the fun?
In reply to: I love to trad.
Although "to trad" acts as a noun, "trad" must be a verb because it is an infinitive.
Is "trad" a word?
In reply to: Other non-verbs that are acceptable as verbs: Flash
She flashed me.
He flashed by the other runners.
Don't flash your cash.
In an antiquated useage, He flashed after a half gallon of Spanada.
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pornstarr
Jan 23, 2004, 9:20 PM
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In reply to: Officially no, but in an informal setting, where communication in style is paramount, it works.
to say "i trad" is not the least bit stylish...
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iltripp
Jan 23, 2004, 9:37 PM
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In reply to: No, "trad" is not a verb. In that sentence, you are simply leaving out "trad climbing." Climbing is the verb. Traditional is typically an adjective, as in "traditional climbing," but it could also be a noun, as in "you are traditional."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think traditional is a noun, especially in that example. "you are a traditional", would make it a noun, but I have no idea what a traditional is. In the example that you gave, "you are traditional", the word traditional is an adjective (i think).
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the_pirate
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Are you disrespectin' me because I trad?
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camhead
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a tradding we will go
a tradding we will go
thirty foot runout on a double 0
a tradding we will go
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mike_ok
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Climbing isn't a verb, climbing is a gerund. Gerund use verbs to function as nouns. In this case, "to climb" is the base verb and "climbing" is used as a noun in a sentence such as, "I love climbing."
Tradding is attempting to function as a gerund but could only work if we allow that Traditional is a verb. "I love traditionalling," or alternatively, "I love tradding," could never work.
The preceding was the grammar beacon in me screaming for release.
In any case I don't know how you could use trad as a verb. One could say, "I trad," I suppose, though I've never heard it.
To summarize: if you heard someone use "tradding" in a sentence, what you heard was an attempt on Bob's part to turn "traditional" into a gerund. For some reason people think "ing" words function as verbs in sentences. They do not. They modify verbs to function as nouns.
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davidji
Jan 23, 2004, 10:37 PM
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In reply to: In reply to: ...... as "sport" was already a verb. really?? so i can go out and do some sporting too?? dayum.....
In reply to: v. sport·ed, sport·ing, sports v. intr. 1. To play or frolic. 2. To joke or trifle. 3. Biology. To mutate. v. tr. To display or show off: “His shoes sported elevated heels” (Truman Capote). |
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fracture
Jan 23, 2004, 10:42 PM
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Any noun can be verbed.
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hangdoggypound
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In reply to: Any noun can be verbed. |
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yosemite
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Verbification is not always a good thing.
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hangdoggypound
Jan 23, 2004, 11:18 PM
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In reply to: Climbing isn't a verb, climbing is a gerund......For some reason people think "ing" words function as verbs in sentences. They do not. They modify verbs to function as nouns.
Anyway, I'll try not to post again as I'm feeling a little silly right about now.
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mike_ok
Jan 23, 2004, 11:25 PM
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In reply to: In reply to: Climbing isn't a verb, climbing is a gerund......For some reason people think "ing" words function as verbs in sentences. They do not. They modify verbs to function as nouns. Just to be a wacko, "climbing," in your sentence above behaves as a noun, and the subject of the sentence; and it is not modifying the verb "isn't". Climbing (subject/noun) isn't (verb) a (article) verb (oddly, a noun :lol:). A gerund is a gerund, if I am correct, when it modifies/works with the verb "to be." Such as "I am climbing" - that would make it a gerund. Anyway, I'll try not to post again as I'm feeling a little silly right about now.
Gerunds have nothing to do with "be" verbs (except when a "be" verb becomes a gerund... :lol: ).
You mentioned that "climbing" in my sentence above behaves as a noun. This is obviously so, since "gerunds" are a special case of nouns. A gerund is a verb behaving like a noun, and in english are signified by ending in "ing". When I said that gerunds modify verbs to become nouns, I didn't mean they modified other verbs in the sentence. I meant that they modify any verb to become a noun. The modification is the "ing".
To summarize: gerunds have no specific attachment to "be" verbs.
All of this said, I reread the original post and this is actually quite a different case than was asked about. Oh well... ;-)
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