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erfgh
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You have a disagreement. You don't have a disagree.
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sethammons
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Take ~6min to watch Stephen Fry Kinetic Typography - Language. It is my favorite take on changes in English and addresses verbing of nouns directly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7E-aoXLZGY
jmchuster
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Sorry that we confuse you non-native speakers. Contemporary american english has much greater flexibility with deverbal nominalizations.
christophilus
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They’ll hand out a disagree to anyone these days.
esperent
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Hard disagree. Language is fluid, get used to it.
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