c/showerthoughts · by Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca · 189dYou can checkout, but you can never checkin. You will only ever check in, or check-in 23 points · 11 comments · view on lemmy.world
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philophilsaurus@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 189d
I’m checkin this out right now
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip · 12 pts · 189d
In my mind, I can't checkout, because it's a noun or an adjective. I always do verbs, so I check out.
moakley@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 189d
Exactly. I also try only to do verbs, although occasionally I verb nouns.
Regardless, the counter you check out at is the checkout counter, while the counter you check in at is the check-in counter. So OP does still have a point.
Morphite88@thelemmy.club · 5 pts · 189d
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 189d
But: Log in... Login... 🤔
(pretty sure "Login" is a word... right?)
rockerface@lemmy.cafe · 5 pts · 189d
It is, but it wasn't always.
Just like "today" was originally "to day" and then "to-day". People simplify stuff they use a lot.
Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 189d
or if Canadian, logging.
Some Canadians may be reverted to childhood from watching/hearing this song. Logdivers Waltz
LordMayor@piefed.social · 1 pts · 189d
I logged all of my work for years and it shows that I’m not a logger.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 1 pts · 177d
You can check-out anytime you'd like, but you can never leave.
starlinguk@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 177d
Checkout is a noun. You can only check out.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 116d
Checkout is a noun. It's the registers at the end of the grocery store.
Checkin is also a noun. It means the front desk of a hotel.
Once you start verbing either of those, you need to split the words up. I don't know why, I don't make the rules.