"Sculpture" as a Verb?
posted by DO at 6:36 PM
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Hate to bear bad news, but it seems that sculpt is actually a back-formation from sculptor (all from Latin).
OED gives for sculpt (v.), earliest citation 1864:
1. trans. To sculpture; absol., to practise the art of sculpture.
Sculpture (v.), earliest citation 1645:
1. trans. To represent in sculpture, to carve (a design or figure) from the solid.
Erin? You there? Lady of the Lexicon?
Oh, it has nothing to do with whether it's correct or not. It just sounds icky.
Oh. Well, it was a good excuse to visit the OED, anyway.
My favorite verb form is my high school friend R's: "I was so obnoxed by him."
Ooh, "obnoxed" is good.
I don't mind "sculpture," or, for that matter, "pleasure."
(Okay, okay, I'm lying. They're not my faves. But I wanted to connipt Dean.)
Shows how much you know. Everybody knows "connipt" is intransitive.
I thought it was factitive.
Hey, *I* decide whether my verbs get objects. (Whether they're objected?)
I'd just like to point out the irony in "DO" posting about intransitivity.
That'll do, PC.
"Happy" and "fraud" are still okay, right?
("What gets wetter and wetter as it dries?")
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