Conjugating the first person singular, if you know what I'm sayin'

[nihilicious]

I have a masturbation problem.

Specifically, I can't bring myself to accept "masturbate" as a transitive verb.

Refresher: A transitive verb takes an object. An intrasitive verb takes no object. (More technically, a transitive verb has two arguments, while an intransitive verb has one.)

intransitive: "I masturbated this morning."
transitive

Comments

[kdborg]

Perhaps you just prefer masturbating other people more than you do yourself.

[montrealais]

How else would you say the second?

[nihilicious]

There's the rub, so to speak.

I know what you're sayin'!

[jasoneppink]

I've heard it said "masturbated over _____", which, sure, can be confused with physical location instead of mental state, but if you're masturbating it's probably the latter, right?

Man I agree about this inelegant transitive verb business! You know how I feel about the use of "to grow" as a transitive verb, too.

"Grow your penis and masturbate Antonio Banderas!"

Re: I know what you're sayin'!

[montrealais]

I'm pretty sure we're not talking about masturbating yourself while thinking about another person; we're talking about actually stimulating the other person with your hand.

[whobunkyboo]

Masturbating Antonio Banderas does sound inelegant, you're correct.

I hate, with a passion, using 'to grow' as a transitive verb.

[nihilicious]

Oh, come on, grow some balls. :P

[whobunkyboo]

I would rather grow balls than 'grow my business'. (And it's just about as likely...)