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Re:How to Grow Professional Relationships by caseyohara on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @02:35PM (#42321156)
Technologists seem to have a special proclivity for linguistic nominalization (functional transformation of a verb or adjective into a noun).

Examples: build, patch, commit, deploy, sync, mock, update, upgrade, deliverable, standup, kickoff, resolve, retry. There are probably many more.

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Re:How to Grow Professional Relationships by smcin on Friday December 06, 2024 @08:12AM (#42339479)
'verbing a noun'

Also there's a stylistic difference between coining something new and necessary e.g. 'mock','patch', vs. creating something faddish and unnecessary e.g. 'an ask'.

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