That’s some weird use of language in the tweet. It uses “demise” and “root cause” as verbs (demise can be a verb, but it doesn’t mean what the tweet author thinks it means). Is this some new form of corporate-speak that I haven’t encountered before?
There is nothing about using “demise” as a verb in your first link. I see “root cause” as a verb in the Urban Dictionary, but neither that nor your link (both crowd-sourced) are evidence that it’s a common usage. But it’s clearly not unheard of. How unspeakably vulgar.
wilg•1mo ago
I agree there is nothing about using it as a verb, and you seem to have a prescriptivist view of language which is tiresome.
leephillips•1mo ago
Not so much. What I have are opinions, some of them aesthetic opinions. What is tiresome is hearing, yet again, someone’s opinions being disqualified by being lazily classified as “presciptivist”, as if that decides the matter.
unmole•1mo ago
Uninformed whining about the aesthetics of terms of art is obnoxious.
leephillips•1mo ago
Probably more irrelevant than obnoxious. Is there a term of art under discussion here?
K0balt•1mo ago
It would be interesting to root cause your opinions on the vulgarity of terms of art, in an effort to demise the inner turmoil that it apparently creates for you.
wilg•1mo ago
Other people are allowed to have opinions too, and mine is that I don't care about prescriptivist arguments.
pfannkuchen•1mo ago
Root cause as a verb is common in every engineering group I’ve ever worked in. That doesn’t strike me as odd at all, though I haven’t heard it outside of a professional engineering setting. No opinion on demise as a verb.
dzhiurgis•1mo ago
The satellite is largely intact