>Differences between discrete and discretize: Latter is a transitive verb belonging to the engineering/mathematics/physics world (and perhaps beyond). It would be difficult to "discrete" something. "To Discrete" does not exist as a transitive verb. <
For what it's worth, the pattern used for adopting loan words (or synthesizing new ones) in English depends partly on the semantic makeup of the original word. "Discretize" is a verbal form that will probably become a perfectly acceptable term in the language in general for giving some item the property of being discrete. In fact, this "-ize" suffixation is a general pattern for creating this type of verb where the idea is to transmit a property to something. Non-working examples would be synthesized verbs like "to hoover up", a term common in many British English dialects, "to email" which has a transitive form, etc. One can't "hooverize" or "emailize" without really sitting down and thinking about it pretty hard.... Oh well, just the morning coffee talking hi hi.... 73, LS W5QD -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/no-subject-tp4811489p4813049.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
