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SoC: use 'criticizing' instead of 'critiquing'#148

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It seems to me that 'critiquing' is not correct.

cc @peff @moy

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moy commented Mar 25, 2016

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It seems it is actually correct actually:
http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/critique.html
http://www.wordreference.com/enfr/critique

But I'll let native speakers decide ;-).

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Yeah it is strange that there is also criticize: http://www.wordreference.com/enfr/criticize

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peff commented Mar 25, 2016

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I think "criticize" was the original verb, but like many things, we Americans managed to start using the noun form as a verb. These days, though, I think I would prefer "critique"; it implies a constructive objectiveness to the feedback, whereas "criticize" generally implies strict negativity. I have no idea if that is different in British English, though.

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Ok, let's just keep "critiquing" then.

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