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You can also "noun" verbs. One I hear in SV is "an ask". I find myself a bit peeved by it but I don't know why.
by etaioinshrdlu 5y ago
You can also "noun" verbs. One I hear in SV is "an ask". I find myself a bit peeved by it but I don't know why.
- mercer 5y agoMuch as I tend to be in favor of language evolving, I react almost viscerally to 'compute' as a noun. It is a major irk.
- etaioinshrdlu 5y agoWait a minute, did you just "noun" irk? I'm irked.
- evv 5y agoWait a minute, did you just "verb" noun? I'm adjectived
- toxik 5y agoDid you just adjective adjective?
- arthurcolle 5y agoTechnically he just verbed the noun 'adjective'
- toxik 5y agoNo, it’s used as an adjective here
- dwaite 5y agoYes it is called "verbing"
- Spivak 5y agoWhat’s a better noun for “abstract resource I can use to do computations on?” Because computer is too general — literally encompassing everything, or too specific — as a synonym for a PC.
- JohnJamesRambo 5y agoWhen people say they grok something it hurts me deep inside.
- hattar 5y agoWhy?
- snowwrestler 5y agoMaybe because to truly grok a person, you have to eat them [1]. I’d imagine that could hurt that person deep inside if they were alive when you started. [1] Per the end of A Stranger In a Strange Land
- killjoywashere 5y agoI wonder if that whale groks Michael Packard.
- Retric 5y agoEating someone isn’t required to grok them in a Stranger in a Strange Land, it’s an aid in doing so.
- sqqqqrly 5y agohttps://www.etymonline.com/word/grok#etymonline_v_14297 https://www.etymonline.com/word/grok#etymonline_v_14297
- eps 5y agoYeah, tell me about it. People nouning things... argh, eyeroll.
- nicwilson 5y agoWith no context, that sounds like a trading term to me, like "a put".
- somebodythere 5y agoYou can "hit the ask" during a trade
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- arthurcolle 5y agoThis is incorrect, old sport. You hit the bid and lift the offer (in your parlance "ask" although no one actually calls it that IRL). https://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/hitthebid.asp https://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/hitthebid.asp
- eyesee 5y agoIn context it sounds like calling in a favor, like “calling in a chit”, in that it’s transactional unlike of the common usage.
- darrenf 5y ago“Ask” has had a noun form for as long as I can recall in British English. Phrases like “that’s quite a big ask” and “what’s the ask?” are commonplace IME.
- DaiPlusPlus 5y agoI still want to believe it’s people dropping the “t” in “task”.
- jsjohnst 5y agoI’ve heard both phrases you mention a lot in American English too.
- MiscIdeaMaker99 5y agoJust out of curiosity, I looked it up in an American dictionary and it does have a noun form over here, as well, but it's noted as "chiefly British, informal". Although, the term "big ask" is something I'm certain I've used before, as well as others, but more in a business/corporate context. Or maybe I've just watched a lot of British television?
- andybak 5y agoI remember that phrase appearing seemingly out of nowhere 10 years or so ago. (UK) Very weird. Maybe it had been percolating in business circles earlier than that. I don't tend to mix much in those circles.
- etxm 5y agoWait until you hear someone noun “solve,” it’s the most infuriating sound to leave a PMs mouth. I’m hoping we can come to an agreement during this meeting to find the solve. Would ___ work for this solve?
- xmprt 5y agoI love that. It's an attempt to look smart when it really only makes you look stupid or pretentious. Or both. Do they not realize that there's already a word for that - solution?
- hirsin 5y agoA "solve" is common parlance in puzzling in my experience (ie puzzle hunt). Never used it in my day to day PM role though, agreed it would sound awkward.
- killjoywashere 5y agoYou’re peeved by “ask” as a noun?! How the hell is “math” plural?! Why maths? The subject (singular) is math (singular). Do you study Englishes? Anthropologies? Medicines?
- stephenr 5y agoYou know that “math” is just the abbreviated form of “mathematics” right?
- rsj_hn 5y ago"mathematics" may end in "s", but that doesn't make it plural. We say "Mathematics is a science" not "Mathematics are sciences" (replace with "art/arts" if you don't belive it's a science). We also say "mathematics is a growing field", not "mathematics are growing fields". Because it's singular, the fact that it ends in "s" doesn't naturally require shortened forms of it to carry the last letter at the end. I get that in the UK people say "maths", but let's not make this out to be like one side is correct and the other is not because mathematics ends in "s". Particularly as "math" was first coined in the U.K. (much of contemporary U.S. English is an older form of contemporary British English).
- istjohn 5y ago”Learnings" is the one that gets my goat.
- octos4murai 5y agoYou can. It just doesn’t seem as clever to say “‘noun’ verbs”. It doesn’t have the property where the term is an example of itself.
- rgrieselhuber 5y agoOne of the ones I hate the most is "let's find a solve" when they mean to say "let's find a solution."
- rusk 5y agoI almost involuntarily downvoted you when I read that
- rgrieselhuber 5y agoI can sympathize.
- lupire 5y ago"Let's solve the problem."
- ruste 5y agoI think it's worse when they flip it around and inappropriately use a noun as a verb: "Let's solution this."