"Grocery" Is A Verb

[Madeline]

A person does not "go to the grocery store". They "go grocery".

Pay. Attention.

 

[Luissa]

 

[Madeline]

 

[xotoxi]

A person does not "go to the grocery store". They "go grocery".

Pay. Attention.

What the fuck are you babbling about?

gro·cer·y (gr

s

-r

)
n. pl. gro·cer·ies
1. A store selling foodstuffs and various household supplies.
2. groceries Commodities sold by a grocer.



Looks like a noun to me!

 

[Luissa]

What if you say you are getting groceries? Wouldn't it be a noun then?

 

[Sherry]

A person does not "go to the grocery store". They "go grocery".

Pay. Attention.

To me that conjures up an image of a bag boy going nuts....like instead of "go postal", they "go grocery".

 

[Madeline]

A person does not "go to the grocery store". They "go grocery".

Pay. Attention.

What the fuck are you babbling about?

gro·cer·y (gr

s

-r

)
n. pl. gro·cer·ies
1. A store selling foodstuffs and various household supplies.
2. groceries Commodities sold by a grocer.

Looks like a noun to me!

T'aint a noun in upstate New York, the epicenter of the English language. Shove over, xotoxi.

 

[Madeline]

What if you say you are getting groceries? Wouldn't it be a noun then?

Nobody gets "groceries". They get "things". As in:

I have to go grocery again, damnit. I forgot a few things.

 

[xotoxi]

A person does not "go to the grocery store". They "go grocery".

Pay. Attention.

What the fuck are you babbling about?

gro·cer·y (gr

s

-r

)
n. pl. gro·cer·ies
1. A store selling foodstuffs and various household supplies.
2. groceries Commodities sold by a grocer.

Looks like a noun to me!

T'aint a noun in upstate New York, the epicenter of the English language. Shove over, xotoxi.

If you are in upstate NY, then you go to Wegmans.

 

[Madeline]

Haven't been there in forty years. I think I went to the A & P.

 

[xotoxi]

Haven't been there in forty years. I think I went to the A & P.

Tops?

 

[Baruch Menachem]

going is the verb.

grocery is the indirect object, or in this case a adjective for a gerend.

Many languages let you skip obvious words when the meaning is clear. One of the reasons Japanese is horrible for students is the Japanese skip so much that to them is obvious, but to the rest of humanity is not so clear.

But they also insist on saying the present tense of To be, which most languages do without. English excepted.

 

[Madeline]

I ♥ a healthy discussion of gerends.