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Chris -- 2018-04-11
An odd substitution. It might could be taken as an eggcornish replacement of – ion ‘(noun) action of the root verb’ by – ive ‘adj > noun’, but the two really don’t sound alike enough to count.
Starlink competitors, such as Viasat and representatives from Amazon’s planned Kuiper network, objected to SpaceX’s request to fly its satellites at lower altitudes. The companies claimed the change would increase the Starlink fleet’s interference with other spacecraft, and create more congestion at an already-populated orbital altitude, or shell. ¶ The FCC dismissed the objectives, ruling that the changes proposed by SpaceX served the public interest.
There were several strong objectives to such a clause : The Chileans , for instance , objected to it because it would tend to create a further dilution of claims of …
the Alkylphenols & Ethoxylates Research Council (APERC), which raised several objectives to the proposed listing.
I’m the only one to be blamed for it. Because anyone they ignore me, behave with me i was always there for them. I never raised an objective just for the fear that it might create some misunderstanding, hurt them or i might loose them. So they thought that i might be totally okay with it.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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An interesting substitution, nonetheless. The two Latin suffices, ”-ivus” and ”-tio,” both imply, when added to verbal roots, a settled state of affairs, a disposition. So it is easy to see why they might be interchanged. What is odd is that appending “ivus” to a verb usually results in an adjective, while adding ”-tio” produces a noun. So those who replace “objection” with “objective” are setting semantics against syntax.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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