Submitted by inomorr t3_10pizrj in Showerthoughts
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ObligatoryOption t1_j6kr8tg wrote
You can't verbify "efficient" because you can't efficient something without saying what you're doing, and what you're doing is the verb, not how you're doing it.
[deleted] t1_j6krsmv wrote
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Openly_Guarded t1_j6ksyt4 wrote
They're talking about not having a term like efficient-ize, the way you do with other adjectives like legal.
NorthImpossible8906 t1_j6ktavu wrote
there is a verb form.
eff you (or commonly, "F U")
it means efficiencify yourself.
ObligatoryOption t1_j6ktn0v wrote
Ah, then an equivalent verb is "optimize", which means to modify (a process) in order to achieve maximum efficiency. The existence of this verb eliminates the need to verbify "efficient" without loss of efficiency.
Mon69ster t1_j6lh70s wrote
Streamline, develop, enhance, ameliorate.
[deleted] t1_j6lmtje wrote
inomorr OP t1_j6ln1t9 wrote
Right you are, but then again, not very 'efficient' to have a different word when efficientise would have worked well enough.
RiC_David t1_j6mcv0g wrote
Sub-optimal.
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