1443: Language Nerd

Explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb.
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Language Nerd
Not to go all sentence fragment on you.
Title text: Not to go all sentence fragment on you.

Explanation

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Megan is telling Cueball that she used 'legit' as an adverb. By saying this - i.e. "I (...) adverbed" - she's using 'adverb' as a verb. In the beginning of the sentence she also used 'language nerd' as an adjective, which is why she's saying that she "adjectived" it.

Transcript

Megan (to Cueball): I don't mean to go all language nerd on you, but I just legit adverbed "legit", verbed "adverb" and adjectived "language nerd".