Adjectivisation
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Towards more picturesque speech™
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The lexo-crime of taking a perfectly good verb, having it identify as an adjective and then demeaning it by sticking an inferior, dull, verb — like be, make, do, give, or worst of all effect — in front of it. Dead giveaways constructions include the passive and the word “of”.
“I support this proposal”
becomes
“I am supportive of this proposal”
from where it is a short leap to:
“Subject to what Chip thinks, I would be inclined to be supportive of the proposal for the time being.”