http://www.aanvvv.com/taxonomy/term/9/0 Concerning the study of the aanvvv format itself. en http://www.aanvvv.com/verbshifts <h1>Definition</h1> <p>A variety of mood, timing, and humorous effects can be created by selecting verbs which are mismatched. Typically, the pattern is for the first two verbs to establish a pattern which the third verb then violates in some way.</p> <p>Often, this mismatch is purely semantic. Sometimes, however, the key difference lies in verbs having a different role with regard to the subject or object given in the first part of the line. I call this case a 'verb shift'.</p> <h1>Examples</h1> <h2>Subject shift</h2> <p><i>alt.adorable.kitten.mew.purr.stroke</i></p> <p>The subject of 'mew' and 'purr' is the kitten, the subject of 'stroke'</p> <p><a href="http://www.aanvvv.com/verbshifts">read more</a></p> http://www.aanvvv.com/verbshifts#comment Linguistics Mon, 19 Jun 2006 19:37:26 -0400 admin 5 at http://www.aanvvv.com http://www.aanvvv.com/linguistics <p>In order to give mankind in general, and the aanvvv community in particular, a vocabulary with which to discuss our rich aanvvv heritage, some articles are presented here which examine common aanvvv tropes, idioms, and problems.</p> <p>Out of necessity, this area is non-conforming.</p> http://www.aanvvv.com/linguistics#comment Linguistics Mon, 19 Jun 2006 19:14:55 -0400 admin 3 at http://www.aanvvv.com