Smurfberries!

For those of you who are Children of the 80s, you no doubt remember the Smurfs, unless your parents had some kind of uncanny sight beyond sight and recognized the now obvious Soviet propaganda for what it is.

Regardless, one of the things I loved the most about the Smurfs was that the word smurf was not just a noun, but a multi-purpose verb. "You're the smurfiest smurf that ever smurfed a smurf" would no doubt be correct in a written paper.

I submit that we need more words like this in English. If you're not familiar with our mother tongue's penchant for vocabulary, simply pick up an English dictionary, and then compare it to say, a Spanish or Russian dictionary. The paucity of words in those languages is downright overwhelming, if such a thing is even possible.

So, in order to better fit in with the rest of the world (and after all, that's part of what real change is all about), I say we start using already common and overused nouns as verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions - you name it.

For example:

"Dude, you're like, the dudeliest dude that ever duded with dudes - and dudettes. You're totally dudical."

You know you want to. It'll be rad.