BrilliantantTurd4361@sh.itjust.works to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 3 days agoCanada’s Richest 1% Nearly As Wealthy As Poorest 80%www.readthemaple.comexternal-linkmessage-square91fedilinkarrow-up1394file-text
arrow-up1394external-linkCanada’s Richest 1% Nearly As Wealthy As Poorest 80%www.readthemaple.comBrilliantantTurd4361@sh.itjust.works to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square91fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agoIts definition is literally a reference to “incentivize,” so all that proves is that language has rotted slightly
minus-squareBrilliantantTurd4361@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoBack in the 1840s apparently. https://www.oed.com/dictionary/incent_v?tl=true
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-23 days agoNot if you actually read the chart
minus-squareBrilliantantTurd4361@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days ago“The earliest known use of the verb incent is in the 1840s.” ???
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-23 days 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-up1·3 days 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.