Proper English actually sounds better than “low” speech. Intact infinitives and periphrastic constructions preserve a comfortably predictable iambic rhythm. For reasons quite apart from usage, formal English shuns verbed two-syllable nouns, most infamously “contact” and “impact”, which tend to preserve their noun stress pattern of the accent falling on the first syllable, forcing a clumsy galumphing rhythm in contrast to native verbs’ stress on the second syllable. Adverbs following the verbs they modify tends to give a “falling” trochaic or dactylic downbeat after this stress.

As The Simpsons is known to word nerds for “cromulent”, so is Calvin and Hobbes, that other great ’90s phenomenon, gave us the verb “verb” (which itself is verbed). And you know what I realize? The Jordan-in-the-Wizards era Simpsons doesn’t diminish the classic episodes’ brilliance at all. I think there should have been five more years of C&H but I think it’s fine that Watterson retired, too. Most of the double-digit-srason Simpsons episodes will be remembered like post-Doyle Sherlock Holmes.