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come on people

I've said it before and I'll say it again: setup and login are not verbs!  If you want to use them as verbs you must split them into set up and log in.  It really fascinates me how often I see these terms used incorrectly, though if English is not your first language that's a pretty good excuse.  Oh, and the same goes for backup and back up.
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# re: come on people

left by asdf at 10/30/2007 10:04 AM Gravatar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism

# re: come on people

left by Alex Bransky at 10/30/2007 10:19 AM Gravatar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law

I was wondering if somebody might make a statement like that, and I'm quite amused by it, and by the fact that the person decided to remain anonymous. Am I telling people how to live their lives or what they can and cannot do? No. I'm simply informing people that if they want to follow the standard rules of English grammar, which would be nice for ease of communication, they should split the words to create the verb. It's interesting that somebody cares enough about what annoys me to invoke Godwin's Law.
This would have been a more appropriate reference:
http://www.onelook.com/?loc=rescb&w=persnickety

# re: come on people

left by John S. at 10/30/2007 2:23 PM Gravatar
To drive the point home to people I extrapolate it out even further.

"If login is a verb, then you are loginning and after that you are loginned. After logouting, you'll be logouted."

I tend to use Sign In and Sign Out whenever possible.

# re: come on people

left by Alex Bransky at 10/31/2007 10:48 AM Gravatar
Awesome, John, thanks. I needed a good laugh.

# re: come on people

left by Kathleen Gresham at 4/17/2008 5:04 AM Gravatar
Ain't it the truth! I spend an amazing amount of time every day correcting those same errors in documentation for clients.

If people wrote code and scripts the way they do "plain English", nothing would ever run.

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