I learned a new word today, "denominalisation." It's the practice of turning a noun into a verb and it seems to be unique to the English language. But, as Anthony Gardner notes, while some love it, others hate it. Either way, we're stuck with it.
However, if it is in fact a case of poor or lazy grammar, then the word "blogged" may be a particularly heinous example. It's a word that begins as a noun with roots in computer jargon, "web", which is transformed into another from a blend of "web log", and then ends as the past tense of the infinitive, "to blog".
But wait! Doesn't all that etymology make what I do sound pretty smart after all? Huh? Doesn't it?
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