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Demise is a term of art in the space industry: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Preparing_for_the_Future/Discovery_and_Preparation/Design_for_demise_bringin
by wilg 10mo ago
Demise is a term of art in the space industry: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Preparing_for_the_Future/Discovery_and_Preparation/Design_for_demise_bringing_spacecraft_down_safely_and_efficiently https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Preparing_for_the_Futur...
Root cause is commonly used as a verb https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/root_cause https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/root_cause
- leephillips 10mo agoThere is nothing about using “demise” as a verb in your first link. I see “root cause” as a verb in the Urban Dictionary, but neither that nor your link (both crowd-sourced) are evidence that it’s a common usage. But it’s clearly not unheard of. How unspeakably vulgar.
- wilg 10mo agoI agree there is nothing about using it as a verb, and you seem to have a prescriptivist view of language which is tiresome.
- leephillips 10mo agoNot so much. What I have are opinions, some of them aesthetic opinions. What is tiresome is hearing, yet again, someone’s opinions being disqualified by being lazily classified as “presciptivist”, as if that decides the matter.
- unmole 10mo agoUninformed whining about the aesthetics of terms of art is obnoxious.
- leephillips 10mo agoProbably more irrelevant than obnoxious. Is there a term of art under discussion here?
- K0balt 10mo agoIt would be interesting to root cause your opinions on the vulgarity of terms of art, in an effort to demise the inner turmoil that it apparently creates for you.
- wilg 10mo agoOther people are allowed to have opinions too, and mine is that I don't care about prescriptivist arguments.
- pfannkuchen 10mo agoRoot cause as a verb is common in every engineering group I’ve ever worked in. That doesn’t strike me as odd at all, though I haven’t heard it outside of a professional engineering setting. No opinion on demise as a verb.