Timeline for Whats the difference between "-ist" and "-er"
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| Mar 28, 2015 at 9:38 | comment | added | Yohann V. |
You misunderstood, the definition. Examples with one who owns or manages something are capitalist; industrialist. We talk about nouns possessed not the fact of owning. (Someone who earn a capital -money or good- is a capitalist. Same for industry)
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| Mar 27, 2015 at 22:35 | comment | added | Parthian Shot | It says -ist applies to "one who owns or manages something", but isn't the term for that, y'know... "owner"? Or "manager"? At best it's "administrator". I feel like that wiktionary article might need some editing... | |
| Mar 27, 2015 at 14:59 | vote | accept | multigoodverse | ||
| Mar 27, 2015 at 14:27 | history | edited | Yohann V. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 27, 2015 at 14:24 | comment | added | Yohann V. | @FumbleFingers Thanks and Congratulations ! ;) I read 'subscribe' on the first reading... damn those eyes | |
| Mar 27, 2015 at 14:23 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @Peter: Nor do I, so in a rare display of public-spiritedness I've just made my first ever edit to a Wiktionary page, and replaced it by subscribe. | |
| Mar 27, 2015 at 14:21 | history | edited | FumbleFingers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 27, 2015 at 14:07 | history | answered | Yohann V. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |