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minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2 found this helpful·3 months agoDo you mean “incentivized?” But yeah.
minus-squareBrilliantantTurd4361@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4 found this helpful·3 months agoIncent is correct in fact 🤓 incent verb in·cent in-ˈsent incented; incenting; incents transitive verb : incentivize … a large prize … may also incent some employee referrals. —Bill Conerly
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3 found this helpful·3 months agoIts definition is literally a reference to “incentivize,” so all that proves is that language has rotted slightly
minus-squareBrilliantantTurd4361@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1 found this helpful·3 months agoBack in the 1840s apparently. https://www.oed.com/dictionary/incent_v?tl=true
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1 found this helpful·3 months agoNot if you actually read the chart
minus-squareBrilliantantTurd4361@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1 found this helpful·3 months ago“The earliest known use of the verb incent is in the 1840s.” ???
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2 found this helpful·3 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-up1 found this helpful·3 months agoI read the whole document akshully. No need to be so cranky.
Do you mean “incentivized?” But yeah.
Incent is correct in fact 🤓
incent verb in·cent in-ˈsent incented; incenting; incents transitive verb
: incentivize … a large prize … may also incent some employee referrals. —Bill Conerly
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.