Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Conjugating the verb consense

[Willie Schreurs (willie]

What's wrong with using the verb that already exists --- consent?

I consent       we consent
you consent     you consent
(s)he consents  they consent

The only real problem it has is that it is intransitive, so you can't say "I
consent that" and you have to use the marginally more awkward construction of
"I consent to that."
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Eileen McCourt wrote:
> 
> For some reason, I really don't like using consensus as a verb, but it is
> difficult to find an alternate way to express this concept.  I usually say
> "agree by consensus",  and conjugate the verb agree, but do not conjugate
> consensus if I can easily avoid doing that.


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