Why do people (sarcastically?) replace most of a sentence with just a noun. IE, instead of writing "can you show me how to internet?" they write "Can you teach me to internet?" or instead of "We like to hang out in nature, where the are trees and stuff," they write "We like to nature?" OutOfTheLoop

I don't really understand why they do that. I can give more examples:

A musician could say "I like to music," instead of "I like to write music."

A nascar driver says "I like to car," instead of "I like to drive race cars and fix motors and tinker with engines."

basically they are turning the noun into a verb and eliminating the other parts of the sentence. I see this all the time but I don't know where it came from, why it's here, and what the joke is, or if it is even a joke or an actual "progression" of the English language comparable to how "refrigerator" also spawned "fridge."

Submitted October 23, 2014 at 10:34PM by rreighe2 http://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/2k40df/why_do_people_sarcastically_replace_most_of_a/ OutOfTheLoop