When I first eyed an article, a few years back, where some guy said he couldn't stomach the "current trend" of using dishing out nouns as verbs, I bought into that idea -- that it was new. Then, on reflection, I tabled the protest, realizing that verbs have spawned nouns and vice-versa for centuries.

The "verbification" of a noun bothers me less than the (apparent) attempt to be really "with it" and clever. ("Can you ballpark the figure for me?" And [shudder] the dreaded "Oh, baby, how you impacted me when I first saw you!"] And the worst of all is that, given the speed of worldwide communication today, any grammatical mistake or neologism that is used on TV (in a sitcom or a news broadcast or commentary) almost instantly makes it into currently practiced English parlance -- so the next edition of Merriam-Webster will give it as accepted usage!

Genie