grammar policing

[cimorene]

there's this big ... i don't know. trend. not just in fanfiction, on the internet. to make intransitive verbs transitive-- i drift my gaze over his face for instance.

cim's verdict: NO.

eta: it goes the other way too! auugh! help! the seeping penis. a seeping thing is something that is coming gradually out of a container in small amounts. usually, liquids seep. a seeping thing is not a container that has things coming gradually out of it. for that matter, nothing SEEPS out of a cock in the first place, except if it has a wound on it. well, i suppose you could say sweat was seeping from pores, but to me that sounds a bit... awkward and redundant.

eta2: that's not really the opposite of transitivising intransitive verbs because 'seep' IS intransitive, and she hasn't tried to make it transitive; she's done something similar, though, because the fluid (or other emergent substance) which is supposed to be the subject of 'seep' becomes--not an actual object but--sort of a mental, implied one. a usual phrase would be "the seeping fluid."

Comments

[morningfine]

Come to think of it, I think it's 'kanske borde vi'. Hell, I really can't remember.

And throw in an 'ibland' there somewhere. Not all the time, god no!

[cimness.livejournal.com]

the verb is always supposed to be second, that's true. but i'm pretty sure i've heard it like that^before, so maybe it's okay in talspråk or something.