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[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago
[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah, I know it from physics and chemistry. I was confused by your usage.

Entropy is a noun, so you would say something like "these conditions would cause the entropy of the situation to increase" (although that sounds clunky).

Edit: LMK if this is actually helping or if I'm just being a pedantic ass.

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

honestly if you wanna spontaneously just turn a word like entropy into a verb by putting an h in it, that should be allowed.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

I'm trying to think of what the actual affix would be, and my best answer is genuinely "enentropy"

[-] GiorgioBoymoder@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

that would be a prefix but yeah.

maybe entrope, entropate, entropize

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

that would be a prefix but yeah.

Prefixes are a type of affix, along with suffixes (and infixes, and circumfixes, though English doesn't have those)

[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago

In this case you would need two verbs: one for increase and one for decrease.

[-] GiorgioBoymoder@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

entropate, deentropate.

[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

Is change dot org still a thing?

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