Timeline for Is it 'vectorizing' or 'vectoring' an image?
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| Apr 11, 2018 at 11:04 | vote | accept | m30l | ||
| Apr 5, 2018 at 19:28 | comment | added | DA01 | @JanusBahsJacquet yes, I know. We're debating language. Language is imperfect. I agree with everything you're saying. | |
| Apr 5, 2018 at 19:16 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | @DA01 Well, google is a verb, exactly because it’s been verbed. But vectorise is slightly different even so: verbing through zero-derivation from proper nouns is often somewhat frowned upon by some (it’s somehow ‘impure’), but the completely productive pattern of deriving causatives or factitives from nouns by adding -ise is quite unremarkable. Saying that something isn’t “technically” a word doesn’t really make any sense. Any word that is used and understood reliably is a word; nothing technical about it. | |
| Apr 5, 2018 at 19:15 | comment | added | Scott | This is how I've always seen the usage... as incorrect.. but then... I think of "rasterizing" - which technically is incorrect for the same reasons. So that kind of blows the "it's not technically correct" mentality out of the water. :) I don't like using or hearing "vectoring/vectorizing" but I no longer shiver due to improper grammar or possibly fictitious word usage. | |
| Apr 5, 2018 at 19:11 | history | edited | DA01 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 5, 2018 at 19:10 | comment | added | DA01 | @JanusBahsJacquet yes, that's pretty much what I'm saying. "Google" isn't technically a verb but we've made it a verb. Language is funny like that. I also have to up-vote any use of the term cromulent! | |
| Apr 5, 2018 at 17:36 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | The second sentence in this answer doesn’t really make sense (and it’s also not true in my experience): vectorise is a verb derived from the noun vector, so the fact that vector in the context of digital file formats isn’t a verb doesn’t in any way entail that vectorise would not be a perfectly cromulent verb. | |
| Apr 5, 2018 at 17:21 | comment | added | Zach Saucier | This is a surprisingly good answer to a question like this | |
| Apr 5, 2018 at 16:56 | history | answered | DA01 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |