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Offline Liebatron

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Evidence is a NOUN, NOT A VERB >=E
« on: March 14, 2009, 02:43:47 AM »
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/evidence

It's not fair... It's a noun, not a verb. You can't just go change it because people feel like using it as a verb. X_X

If it's supposedly a verb used with an object, then what's the Present tense form? Evidence? It just doesn't work as a verb..

Please tell me I'm not insane, that someone other than me cares about this injustice. That someone else knows what 'corroborated' means. And the dictionary.com definition there skews it a bit I think. They say both meanings, but they put emphasis on the 'confirm' part of the meaning. I've never seen corroborate used in a way that means anything but 'prove.' >_<

Sorry for making a poll with a predetermined set of results, but I saw the poll option as I was making the thread and thought "Why not..." So anyway Proven by or Corroborated by would both work depending on the situation.

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Re: Evidence is a NOUN, NOT A VERB >=E
« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2009, 03:35:26 AM »
Evidenced doesn't make sense. Like you said, 'evidence' is a noun, not a verb. I haven't heard corroborate used to say something is confirmed - only when something is proven.

If evidence is a verb, what would you evidence? - "He evidenced the evidence from the crime scene." doesn't really make sense.

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Re: Evidence is a NOUN, NOT A VERB >=E
« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2009, 09:06:08 PM »
Evidenced doesn't make sense. Like you said, 'evidence' is a noun, not a verb. I haven't heard corroborate used to say something is confirmed - only when something is proven.

If evidence is a verb, what would you evidence? - "He evidenced the evidence from the crime scene." doesn't really make sense.

I LOVE that sentence joke.

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Re: Evidence is a NOUN, NOT A VERB >=E
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2009, 09:12:31 PM »
No it doesn't.  Dumb idea.

Now honestly, I never remember hearing evidence used as a verb... weird.

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Re: Evidence is a NOUN, NOT A VERB >=E
« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2009, 09:13:32 PM »
I guess it could be worse...

"Evidently, the evidence we evidenced we did was not enough, so we decided to go back to evidence more evidence."

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Re: Evidence is a NOUN, NOT A VERB >=E
« Reply #5 on: March 19, 2009, 09:04:25 PM »
"The snail evidenced highly unusual behaviour."

It works in this context, but not in the one presented in the poll. =P

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Re: Evidence is a NOUN, NOT A VERB >=E
« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2009, 03:03:30 AM »
MWAHAHAHAHA!

It's funny seeing words used improperly just because the sentences they make are so stupid-sounding.