Timeline for Why use "unsubscribe successful"?
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| Feb 9, 2021 at 21:51 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Nov 27, 2019 at 13:13 | comment | added | Guoyang Qin | @alephzero I just saw the use of 'unsubscription' on Amazon though. See my question edit. | |
| Nov 18, 2019 at 19:54 | comment | added | jsw29 | @alephzero, subscription is most often used for the state of having subscribed; there is a need for such a word because one often needs to refer to the fact that one has subscribed to something. If there were a word unsubscription, and if it functioned analogously to subscription, it would refer to the state of having unsubscribed. There, is however, little need for such a word because, after unsubscribing from something, there is generally no need to refer to the fact; the matter is over. Unsubscribe used as a noun, is different: it refers to the procedure of unsubscribing. | |
| Nov 18, 2019 at 13:11 | vote | accept | Guoyang Qin | ||
| Nov 18, 2019 at 11:29 | comment | added | Flater | @GuoyangQin Keep in mind that these messages may be generated by a system that follows a generic "ACTION OUTCOME" format. It's not uncommon to favor logical simplicity over grammatical correctness as long as the message is clear. | |
| Nov 18, 2019 at 6:48 | history | edited | jsw29 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 18, 2019 at 4:15 | comment | added | Arm the good guys in America | @Guoyang nouns and verbs in English also take the same form, given that any noun can be used as a verb and vice versa. for further study, read Shakespear, Calvin & Hobbes, and whatever your googugulu search returns. meanwhile all languages are constantly in flux and it remains to be seen what both English and Mandarin will look like in, say, 500 years. | |
| S Nov 18, 2019 at 4:08 | history | suggested | yoniLavi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
fixed small typo, which I felt was particularly confusing since that occurrence is in bold
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| Nov 18, 2019 at 0:33 | comment | added | alephzero | @GuoyangQin Dialects of English used mainly as a second language are certainly influenced by their users' native language, but it may take a long time for those changes to become "standard" in British or American English. | |
| Nov 18, 2019 at 0:26 | comment | added | alephzero | The word "subscription" is in standard dictionaries as the noun corresponding to the verb "subscribe", So "subscription [is/was] successful" would be standard English. However the analogous noun "unsubscription" matching the verb "unsubscribe" is not used. There is no logical reason why, or why not. | |
| Nov 17, 2019 at 18:29 | comment | added | Guoyang Qin | Additionaly, my first language is mandarin, in which we don't need things like nominalizations, because verbs and nouns take the same form. Yep, it is quite convenient. No conjugations also. So is there a trend in the development the English language that nominalizations or conjugations will be somewhat weakened to make it more convenient and efficient to use? | |
| Nov 17, 2019 at 18:19 | comment | added | Guoyang Qin | Nominalizations, that's what I am looking for. I have noticed this phenomenon quite often. To make it grammatically correct, taking unsubscribe as a noun can well resolve the issue and comply with grammars. Having said that, what would "unsubscription" think of - "am I not supposed to be a more suitable candidate according to the conventional nominalization rules?" By the way, quite curious about if this verb-turned-noun-directly-regardless-of-conventional-nominalization mainly came from computer fields and if there is any linguistic study about this? | |
| Nov 17, 2019 at 17:01 | history | answered | jsw29 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |