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“solve”, why not solution? Like “spend” and not expenditure, why use the verb as a noun and not care about grammar?
by eecc 5mo ago
“solve”, why not solution? Like “spend” and not expenditure, why use the verb as a noun and not care about grammar?
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- iainmerrick 5mo agoThey’re shorter. Why so pedantic?
- sheept 5mo agoThese examples that you're calling "verbs as a noun" are standard grammar. You can't just invent simplified rules about a language and declare it wrong when the rules fall apart.
- msm_ 5mo agoIn addition to what others have said, this usage is very common in the CTF world. "The challenge has no solves", "We just got the first solve" etc are very idiomatic. It would actually look weird to me if this was "solution".
- tripzilch 5mo agoI don't understand the complainiture, it's an improve