Forges

Posted Sep 5, 2021 9:55 UTC (Sun) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Forges by samlh
Parent article: Emacs discusses web-based development workflows

> There is no agreement on what this sort of service should be called, and calling it a "Forge" is relatively uncommon.

IME it is the standard term. Did you know the collective noun for owls is a parliament? How many other collective nouns do you know? Just because you've never met a word doesn't mean you can say it is uncommon (the collators of The Complete Oxford Dictionary ended up with egg on their faces due to this mistake!)

> I personally first saw the term "Forge" be used to describe the concept as part of this article.

You live and learn. The average person uses about 20,000 in their normal vocabulary. They also have a complete vocabulary of over 50,000. I don't know how many English words there are in common use but it's probably at least two orders of magnitude higher - don't forget one of the reasons English is so hard to learn is it has far more words than almost any other language ...

Welcome to computer jargon - "forge" is a well-understood word.

(And don't forget. That's WHY English has so many words. We repurpose words from elsewhere. Like German creates massively long complex nouns. Don't start applying German habits to English ...)

Cheers,
Wol

Forges

Posted Sep 5, 2021 12:34 UTC (Sun) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link] (1 responses)

> Like German creates massively long complex nouns.

"BH", "U-Bahn", "S-Bahn", and "Handy" are all perfectly respectable words in German, and words like "Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz" or "Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän" don't see much daily use outside of their originating contexts.

Forges

Posted Sep 6, 2021 10:03 UTC (Mon) by bosyber (guest, #84963) [Link]

both of those latter would probably quickly become something like RiFEwAUG and DDSGK; yes long words are fun at times, but shortening them for daily use definitely is part of the fun!