Path: kudonet.com!kudo20!tyagi From: ! Newsgroups: alt.zen,alt.philosophy.zen,alt.buddha.short.fat.guy Subject: Re: Zen zaught zaught Date: 24 Mar 1997 16:42:07 -0800 Organization: KudoNet On-Line Services Lines: 39 Sender: tyagi@bjt.net Message-ID: References: <3333058C.6B98@megabaud.fi> Reply-To: tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com (!) NNTP-Posting-Host: kudo20.kudonet.com Xref: kudonet.com alt.zen:40881 alt.philosophy.zen:9780 alt.buddha.short.fat.guy:45544 Jeremy and Minna Dallyn : >I've been thinking. you know, I'm an english teacher, and I have noticed >how ordinary words, nouns, can transmute into verbs and all other parts >of grammar.... if we created the verb 'to zen'. We could all be zenning >around you know, or at least we would have zenned if we had had time, or >maybe we just got zenned out one day. >any way we would need to define the verb, and is it regular, like zen >zenned zenned, or as in the title of the posting, or other, >pronunciatian, usage examples, idioms, abstract usages etc. >What do you reckon? to zen or not to zen, question this I zen ("I used to zen all the time, but it comes more difficult of late.") you zen ("you zen, girl!") she zens ("experts have demonstrated that the Buddhist who zens is 5 times more likely to be happy, healthy, and holistically helpful!") you zen ("I have only one thing to say to this newsgroup: when you zen the way you do, I find I am rather turned off.") they zen ("when I visit them in temple they zen out on me, somehow leaving me with no response to their terminology.") zenning ("we were zenning in APZ and Foot made this horrible racket!") zenned ("suddenly he was overcome and zenned out without explanation.") zendid ("your explication of koans is simply zendid!") zendup ("his capacity for zendup made him the darling of AZ.") -- see http://www.hollyfeld.org/~tyagi/nagasiva.html and call: 408/2-666-SLUG!!! ---- (emailed replies may be posted) ---- CC public replies to author ---- * * * Asphalta Cementia Metallica Polymera Coyote La Cucaracha Humana * * *