On Sat, 15 Aug 2020 at 18:12, Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 15 Aug 2020 at 17:05, Steve Doerr <doerr.step...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 12/08/2020 19:27, Paul Allen wrote: >> >> > I would interpret 'Collects', 'Issues', 'Spreads', and possibly 'Sinks' as >> verbs in the third person singular, rather than plural nouns. >> > > That's a bit of an issue, although I think you've included the kitchen > sink. > > Kitchen sinks are more of an indoor tagging thing. :-P
> It is not unknown in English for verbs to get nouned and nouns to get > verbed. > Especially in technical English like mapology. > > This might affect how we tag them, as we mainly use nouns and adjectives, >> I think. >> > > As used by OS, these are nouns. If we had non-cartographic equivalents in > British English then maybe we should use those instead. If we decide that > we want to tag such things in the first place. > > -- > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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