BrilliantantTurd4361@sh.itjust.works to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 个月前Canada’s Richest 1% Nearly As Wealthy As Poorest 80%www.readthemaple.comexternal-linkmessage-square91linkfedilinkarrow-up1398arrow-down15file-textcross-posted to: canada@lemmy.cacanada@hexbear.netaboringdystopia@lemmy.world
arrow-up1393arrow-down1external-linkCanada’s Richest 1% Nearly As Wealthy As Poorest 80%www.readthemaple.comBrilliantantTurd4361@sh.itjust.works to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 个月前message-square91linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: canada@lemmy.cacanada@hexbear.netaboringdystopia@lemmy.world
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 个月前Its 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 个月前Back in the 1840s apparently. https://www.oed.com/dictionary/incent_v?tl=true
minus-squareBrilliantantTurd4361@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·2 个月前“The earliest known use of the verb incent is in the 1840s.” ???
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 个月前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.
minus-squareBrilliantantTurd4361@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 个月前I 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.