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Don't use common words in new ways #3

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jdkato opened this issue Feb 5, 2019 · 1 comment
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Don't use common words in new ways #3

jdkato opened this issue Feb 5, 2019 · 1 comment
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jdkato commented Feb 5, 2019

See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/style-guide/word-choice/dont-use-common-words-in-new-ways.

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alexyorke commented Jul 26, 2021

(Not the maintainer) This seems like it would be fairly context-dependent; perhaps we could find odd words in English words suffixed with -ize (as "Bucketized" is in there, along with some other weird ones.)

There's also a page on English slang that has "graveyard" as slang for archiving or storing something away forever, but I won't link to the English slang page here, for, reasons.

Edit: it seems words used as verbs when they should be nouns (or are not defined as a verb) is one of the patterns for using common words in new ways. For example, to "graveyard" files is making graveyard a verb, while the OED says it's just a noun.

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