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[lstavenhagen]

>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
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