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I clicked the link hoping it was about language. But it is about rogue likes and programming. Since english can verb nouns like nominalization, i can't tell wh
by posterboy 7y ago
I clicked the link hoping it was about language. But it is about rogue likes and programming.
Since english can verb nouns like nominalization, i can't tell what the benefit is. one boards the board of a ship, levers a lever, and locks a lock.
We "lockpick" more often than we "save face" perhaps English is a head-first language.
In formal writing, a difference exists between nominal and verbal-style.
- bcyn 7y agoThe article is more about user experience than English language nuances. Take one of your examples, you're much more likely to know you can "board" once you know there's a "ship." Without the ship as context first, only people who are already familiar with ships know that boarding is even an option. This provides a poor experience in terms of discoverability.
- shadowgovt 7y agoThe article clarifies the difference is interesting in thinking about how these orderings simplify autocorrection. It's less about spoken language (I'm unaware of any research on whether there's anything analogous to IDE autocomplete in human cognition, or even what form that would take) and more about how the order in which data is presented to an interactive editor changes how useful the assumptions the editor makes about context can be.
- anoncake 7y ago> We "lockpick" more often than we "save face" perhaps English is a head-first language. The head of a sentence is its verb, so no.