Thread: Remove this word from the english language

I dislike all nouns that have metastasized into verbs.

Originally Posted by WW243

I dislike all nouns that have metastasized into verbs.

But the verb metastasize means the spread of a disease to another part of the body - what's it got to do with language?

Poetic license!
Examples: Source and Curate.....my use of the word metastasize was a hyperbole.

Originally Posted by UKRob

But the verb metastasize means the spread of a disease to another part of the body - what's it got to do with language?

Originally Posted by UKRob

But the verb metastasize means the spread of a disease to another part of the body - what's it got to do with language?

Metastasize definitions,


v. To be transmitted or transferred by metastasis.
v. To be changed or transformed, especially dangerously: "a need for love that would metastasize into an insatiable craving for attention” ( Michiko Kakutani).
v. To spread, especially destructively: "[disinformation] ... that even now continues to metastasize ... to such a degree that myth threatens to overthrow history” ( Gore Vidal).