Welcome to English where we've been turning nouns into verbs and vice versa for quite a while now.
I think that would hold more weight with people on this issue if it weren't the case that there's already an appropriate verb here—"log in".
"Login" is not a verb
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Re: "Login" is not a verb
#62Ok, login isn't technically a verb... yet. Fact of the matter is, any language is an evolving form of communication (except maybe latin at this point). Along with words like signup, setup, etc, these words are nearly ubiquitous on the web, and widely accepted/understood.
...we can't let one little conjugation problem make thousands of programmers and technical writers look like fools
"login is not a verb" + "many websites use it as a navigation element" != "programmers look like fools"
I could use a simple door with an arrow image for logging in as well. That image is not a word at all. Yet it would still serve as an effective navigation element.
Also, who says that all websites intend for it to be a verb anyway? I have another navigation called "account". I do not want users to account the site. I simply want them to know that is the account page. Likewise, "login" signifies that is the link to the login page, for which this article granted that it may be used as a noun.
Ok, I've spent entirely too much time on this subject.
Re: "Login" is not a verb
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
The English language doesn't have a word with three or more repetitions of a letter. "LOOOL" and "mmmmmmuah" excepted.
From /usr/share/dict/words on OSX, I get the following: whenceeer (probable corruption of whenceever, and hence not legit) wallless bossship demigoddessship goddessship headmistressship patronessship
First one is probably a contraction missing the apostrophe: "whencee'er". But that doesn't explain why "wheree'er" doesn't show up.
Re: "Login" is not a verb
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
> "Google" and "email" did "Google" and "email" don't contain prepositions. I log in. You log in. We all logged in. I login. You login. We all logined. What? We all loggedined? We all loggedin? If we just acknowledge that "login" is a noun referring to your credentials, where as "log in" (or "log on") means to supply one's login/credentials, then it's all hunky-dory.
'If we just acknowledge that "login" is a noun referring to your credentials, where as "log in" (or "log on") means to supply one's login/credentials, then it's all hunky-dory.' If only. According to the James Study of Casual TV Activity, "log on" means "visit this Web site". Any use of user name or password is coincidental. E.g "Log on to CNN.com for all the latest headlines." It's a lost cause. I'm saving my energy…
> According to the James Study of Casual TV Activity, "log on" means "visit this Web site". Any use of user name or password is coincidental.
That's just incorrect usage of terminology by (most likely) marketing/PR people.
In the olden days, you had to log on to your ISP over a modem. "Logging on" happened all the time to access anything outside your computer.
I suspect that the occasional use of "log on" in reference to simply visiting websites will disappear in favor of simply "visit". "Log on" will continue to be used and abused with connection to sites that actually want you to log on (after all, what better way to turn your website into a money maker than by gathering user data).
> It's a lost cause. I'm saving my energy to preserve the distinction among "few", "fewer", "less", and "lesser".
This is reminding me of the article about the recent English grads who traveled the country correcting grammar and spelling errors in signs on the way.
Re: "Login" is not a verb
#65If login isn't a verb then why when i try to comment does it prompt me to "login"?
Example: Please login to comment. Example: Please exit to your right.
Yeah, that's what I thought.
Re: "Login" is not a verb
#66Well, if 'login' is still missing in the dictionary, then it is time to add it. Maybe as noun at first which can be verbalized later?
Re: "Login" is not a verb
#67Nor is "Yellow-carded".