About: Ing Disease

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Ing Disease is what happens when too many present-participle verbs are used at once. This has a tendency to make odd things happen, as the character attempts to perform all the actions described simultaneously. The example given by the Turkey City Lexicon runs thus: "'Putting his key in the door, he leapt up the stairs and got his revolver out of the bureau.' Alas, our hero couldn’t do this even if his arms were forty feet long."

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rdfs:label	Ing Disease
rdfs:comment	Ing Disease is what happens when too many present-participle verbs are used at once. This has a tendency to make odd things happen, as the character attempts to perform all the actions described simultaneously. The example given by the Turkey City Lexicon runs thus: "'Putting his key in the door, he leapt up the stairs and got his revolver out of the bureau.' Alas, our hero couldn’t do this even if his arms were forty feet long." Ing Disease is what happens when too many present-participle verbs are used at once. This gives the impression that the acting character attempts to perform all the actions described simultaneously and makes odd things happen in the Word World. The example given by the Turkey City Lexicon runs thus: "Putting his key in the door, he leapt up the stairs and got his revolver out of the bureau." Alas, our hero couldn’t do this even if his arms were forty feet long.
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abstract	Ing Disease is what happens when too many present-participle verbs are used at once. This gives the impression that the acting character attempts to perform all the actions described simultaneously and makes odd things happen in the Word World. The example given by the Turkey City Lexicon runs thus: "Putting his key in the door, he leapt up the stairs and got his revolver out of the bureau." Alas, our hero couldn’t do this even if his arms were forty feet long. An incident of this in That Series created the creature who later became Laburnum's favourite cloak: "Raketooth the Amazing Three-Armed Fox," who was capable of "grabbing Pikkle's head between two scarred paws" and cutting the ropes on his ankles at the same time. Ing Disease is what happens when too many present-participle verbs are used at once. This has a tendency to make odd things happen, as the character attempts to perform all the actions described simultaneously. The example given by the Turkey City Lexicon runs thus: "'Putting his key in the door, he leapt up the stairs and got his revolver out of the bureau.' Alas, our hero couldn’t do this even if his arms were forty feet long."

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