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Re: Re: Re: Re: fao: Sunsnail
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
stop being smarter than me cvnt  |
I ain't 
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Nobody uses "unarm" as a verb, as far as I know. I've never heard it used that way in actual conversation or seen an example of that usage outside of a dictionary. |
That's why I said that as an a hypothesis of what could be, rather than what really is (reason why I used the subjunctive mood throughout that paragraph).
It could be a probable fate of both verbs... but what happened was far more interesting than this (but this wasn't relevant then, and I'll get back to this in the end of the next paragraph).
Like Merriam-Webster's dictionary pointed out, it's pretty much a deprecated form, and that construction wouldn't have survived without a semantic shift - and possibly, that's exactly why "disarmed" and "unarmed" do not convey the same meaning anymore to many speakers (if not all).
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
The adjective "unarmed" is used to mean that you don't currently have a weapon -- whether you never had one or someone took it from you. |
But you can't use "disarm" if you never had a weapon, right?
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
The only "un-" verb I can think of in common usage is "unman," but there are probably more examples. |
Undo and uninstall?
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