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> Once it goes away, we'll all be saying "setupping" Where is the evidence supporting the belief that we'll all be saying "setupping"? Not once have I ever hea
by subsection1h 12y ago
> Once it goes away, we'll all be saying "setupping"
Where is the evidence supporting the belief that we'll all be saying "setupping"? Not once have I ever heard anyone use the words "setupping", "loginning", etc.
I posit that the use of "setup", "login", etc. as verbs is simply the result of people not knowing how to spell. In other words, it's a change that's driven by (poor) writing, not speaking.
I think it's far more likely that people will start writing "settingup" than they'll start saying "setupping".
- bane 12y agoEverything you described is how languages actually evolve. There's pitifully few grammatical construct or morphological mechanisms in English where settingup would become a word, but there are several that trivially lead to setupping (or 'setuping') Something linguists stopped doing a very long time ago is trying to logically set rules for how a language should evolve and started observing how they actually evolve. https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=%22setupping%22 https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e... https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=%22setuping%22 https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e... https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=%22setingup%22 https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...