Login - is a noun. To login is actually "to log in" and thus "I logged in"..
"Login" is not a verb
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Re: "Login" is not a verb
#42People out there seriously think "login" is a verb? Why make things complicated? You just forgot the space. The usage of the verbs "log" and "sign" (as in "log in" and "sign in") is clearly a metaphor for the paper forms ("logs") used for buildings, equipment cabinets, etc.
Here's a visual aid: http://www.flickr.com/photos/riggzy/3177839298/
Also see meanings 6 and 13 at http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/log.
Re: "Login" is not a verb
#43Cute, but English has tens of thousands of "phrasal verbs": Stand up, stand down, stand out, stand over, stand against, understand . Even more remarkable is that native speakers use these constructions all of the time, yet the idea of a phrasal verb is apparently not taught in school.
The point is that phrasal verbs are written spaced: "stand up" -- even when conjugated: "stood up", not "*standupped".
Re: "Login" is not a verb
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
I suggest a new, combined form: looose. The meaning will be drawn from context. I anticipate efficiency improvements world-wide.
The English language doesn't have a word with three or more repetitions of a letter. "LOOOL" and "mmmmmmuah" excepted.
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Re: "Login" is not a verb
#45Cute, but English has tens of thousands of "phrasal verbs": Stand up, stand down, stand out, stand over, stand against, understand . Even more remarkable is that native speakers use these constructions all of the time, yet the idea of a phrasal verb is apparently not taught in school.
The point is that phrasal verbs are written spaced: "stand up" -- even when conjugated: "stood up", not "*standupped".
Well, some phrases (and yes, phrasal verbs) get concatenated over time, like "understand", "overtake", "courtmarshal", "becalm", "whipsaw", etc. The conjugation and number rules work themselves out eventually, for example, "courts-marshal", "overtook".
It's just one of the ways languages mutate. Usually the noun form mutates first, and later on the verb form, but not always.
Re: "Login" is not a verb
#46http://www.google.com/search?q=loginned About 33,300 results
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22logged+in%22
About 224,000,000 results
Re: "Login" is not a verb
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
The point is that phrasal verbs are written spaced: "stand up" -- even when conjugated: "stood up", not "*standupped".
Well, some phrases (and yes, phrasal verbs) get concatenated over time, like "understand", "overtake", "courtmarshal", "becalm", "whipsaw", etc. The conjugation and number rules work themselves out eventually, for example, "courts-marshal", "overtook". It's just one of the ways languages mutate. Usually the noun form mutates first, and later on the verb form, but not always.
Following the model of "understand" -- I'm going to start going with "inlog". Inlogging, inlogged, inlogs -- it just works!
Re: "Login" is not a verb
#48Not worth getting upset about. Personally, I'm more concerned that we're going to lose the word "lose". Everywhere I look, I see people sticking an extra o in there. "You loose" etc.
Agreed, that's a much harder one to swallow.
Sure, languages change over time and so on, but there's already a verb "loose", meaning "release", more or less.
When I become a billionaire and there are trespassers on my estate, I want to be able to cry "Loose the hounds!" without my overly-subservient toady thinking he should misplace them.
Re: "Login" is not a verb
#49Re: "Login" is not a verb
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Technically, I don't think "log in" is a compound verb. It's a verb followed by a preposition.
Interesting. While what you say has "logical" written all over it (given variants like "logged out" where "logged" is clearly the verb), "log" as the verb for this activity doesn't feel right to me. I will, however, update my previous post :-)
People have said as much in other places in the thread, but it's probably better to consider "log in" a phrasal verb. So your instinct ("doesn't feel right to me") is right: they form a single semantic unit. You don't log (full stop), you log in.