BrilliantantTurd4361@sh.itjust.works to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 months agoCanada’s Richest 1% Nearly As Wealthy As Poorest 80%www.readthemaple.comexternal-linkmessage-square56linkfedilinkarrow-up1320arrow-down13file-textcross-posted to: canada@lemmy.ca
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minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoIts definition is literally a reference to “incentivize,” so all that proves is that language has rotted slightly
minus-squareBrilliantantTurd4361@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 months agoBack in the 1840s apparently. https://www.oed.com/dictionary/incent_v?tl=true
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoNot if you actually read the chart
minus-squareBrilliantantTurd4361@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·2 months ago“The earliest known use of the verb incent is in the 1840s.” ???
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoIf you read the chart, rather than just the AI summary, you’d see that usage was quite low until a slow rise in the mid-20th century.
minus-squareBrilliantantTurd4361@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 months agoI read the whole document akshully. No need to be so cranky.
Its definition is literally a reference to “incentivize,” so all that proves is that language has rotted slightly
Back in the 1840s apparently.
https://www.oed.com/dictionary/incent_v?tl=true
Not if you actually read the chart
“The earliest known use of the verb incent is in the 1840s.”
???
If you read the chart, rather than just the AI summary, you’d see that usage was quite low until a slow rise in the mid-20th century.
I read the whole document akshully. No need to be so cranky.
Sure, Jan.