"We GOT your payment..."
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I hate the noun-ification of verbs. Specifically Ask and Spend. The one that causes RAGE in me is "my Ask is" or "the Ask is". Ask is a VERB. You have a Request or a Question. I now say something any time I hear that. Don't care how far above me the person is on the corporate diagram.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
MarkTJohnson wrote:
I hate the noun-ification of verbs.
I love verbing nouns though! :D I've never heard of the opposite :~ Maybe it's not a thing in Dutch. Ask and question are the same word anyway (verb: vragen (to ask), I vraag (ask), he vraagt (asks)..., I have a vraag (question)). Though I'm not questioning what you're saying ;)
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MarkTJohnson wrote:
I hate the noun-ification of verbs.
I love verbing nouns though! :D I've never heard of the opposite :~ Maybe it's not a thing in Dutch. Ask and question are the same word anyway (verb: vragen (to ask), I vraag (ask), he vraagt (asks)..., I have a vraag (question)). Though I'm not questioning what you're saying ;)
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Is "verbification" self-descriptive? Let me google that... :laugh: :laugh:
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Even Sprint's robo-voice says "got" instead of "received." I guess they have to dumb it down for the masses. :laugh:
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MarkTJohnson wrote:
I hate the noun-ification of verbs.
I love verbing nouns though! :D I've never heard of the opposite :~ Maybe it's not a thing in Dutch. Ask and question are the same word anyway (verb: vragen (to ask), I vraag (ask), he vraagt (asks)..., I have a vraag (question)). Though I'm not questioning what you're saying ;)
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One that grinds my gears is "Please revert" meaning please reply.
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And the correct spelling of "through" is doomed as well.
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Ask in bid-ask spread gives rise to What's the ask[ing price]? But as a synonym for question? Gross.
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The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.I’m sure I would have misheard “bid-ask” as “big a**” and would’ve been asking them to repeat it.
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One that grinds my gears is "Please revert" meaning please reply.
If someone asked me to please revert I'd revert my latest code changes :~
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Fortunately, we still have one word that can be used as Adverb, Adjective, Noun, Verb, etc. I learned the proper usage in the service back in the '50's. :)
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Their voicemail prompts use "hit" for "press", "scratch" for "delete" and a host of other substitutions that make no sense to me. I grew up speaking the queen's English, so I dare say I know a thing or two about the language. Also, their robovoice is a thickly accented British female. I appreciate the local slant, but for a North American market? :sigh: /ravi
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I remember my first consulting job in the states... I was given the wrong address and the lady at the reception called the other office (where I should have been) and said, "I have a consultant with a really cute British accent here looking for xxx"... I've never heard a Cumbrian accent[^] called cute before... and never again since...
Who the f*** is General Failure, and why is he reading my harddisk?
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Their voicemail prompts use "hit" for "press", "scratch" for "delete" and a host of other substitutions that make no sense to me. I grew up speaking the queen's English, so I dare say I know a thing or two about the language. Also, their robovoice is a thickly accented British female. I appreciate the local slant, but for a North American market? :sigh: /ravi
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As a lifetime resident of Georgia, USA, I "mash" buttons. So it could be worse.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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The first time I went to the US, I heard sentences like "It ain't not there". Took some time to understand that it's real meaning was "It ain't there".
Where were you, Louisiana? Hardly anyone can understand the Cajuns.
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If someone asked me to please revert I'd revert my latest code changes :~
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Exactly so.
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Even Sprint's robo-voice says "got" instead of "received." I guess they have to dumb it down for the masses. :laugh:
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As far as I can tell (in NA anyway) "alternate" is officially both a noun and verb. Verb - Occurring or succeeding by turns Noun - One that substitutes for another Seems official rather than regional slang or misuse.
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The first time I went to the US, I heard sentences like "It ain't not there". Took some time to understand that it's real meaning was "It ain't there".
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Even Sprint's robo-voice says "got" instead of "received." I guess they have to dumb it down for the masses. :laugh:
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MarkTJohnson wrote:
I hate the noun-ification of verbs.
Is that better or worse than verbing the nouns? :laugh: I love the flexibility of English language where almost everything can be a verb or a noun. And if you don't have a noun at hand you can take an adjective to better your chances of saying what you want. Even a lowly preposition can do the job - "turn" has almost as many meanings as prepositions are.
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Gerund Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster[^] Verbification of a noun is officially part of the how the English language works. Has been for a long time.
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Gerund Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster[^] Verbification of a noun is officially part of the how the English language works. Has been for a long time.
Bond Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
Hmm, I googled a bit and seems learning about gerund can be fun. Verbing a noun and using the gerund are two entirely different things. English might not be my first language but I know it fairly well. :)
Mircea
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Even Sprint's robo-voice says "got" instead of "received." I guess they have to dumb it down for the masses. :laugh:
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Even Sprint's robo-voice says "got" instead of "received." I guess they have to dumb it down for the masses. :laugh:
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