alt Hacker News“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 • today at 8:02 AM
They’re shorter.
Why so pedantic?
“solve”, why not solution? Like “spend” and not expenditure, why use the verb as a noun and not care about grammar?
They’re shorter.
Why so pedantic?
These 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.