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Another noun ascends the ranks 29 September 2004 at 15:26 [link]

As I've said before, nouns that decide they're verbs make my skin crawl. Cheeky nouns.

I can't resist recording this little bit of text that arrived via email, despite the fact it's irrelevant in my life, wasn't directed at me, and was in fact accidentally sent to a mailing list instead of its lone intended recipient:

As a partner in a risk management corporation, I am challenged each day to find innovative solutions to protect health care organization and to provide the most optimal client care. I am always having to gestalt very complex information to create the most effortless systems.

I find it difficult to even conceive of expressing myself this way. It's so exquisitely painful to read, and yet I'm sure the author of this text didn't think twice about it. Does the English language now allow parts of speech to be used entirely interchangeably? Did I miss a memo? Too many more examples like this one, and I'll have to go Freud myself.