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 120 days 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 120 days 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.
wilg 108 days ago [-]
Other people are allowed to have opinions too, and mine is that I don't care about prescriptivist arguments.
unmole 120 days ago [-]
Uninformed whining about the aesthetics of terms of art is obnoxious.
leephillips 120 days ago [-]
Probably more irrelevant than obnoxious. Is there a term of art under discussion here?
K0balt 120 days 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.
pfannkuchen 120 days 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.
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Root cause is commonly used as a verb https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/root_cause