I saw this in an email message yesterday.<\/p>\n
Problem:<\/strong> Explanation:<\/strong> The problem is that the word “stakeholder” is a noun, not<\/em> a verb.<\/p>\n The word “stakeholder” means a person or group with an interest in something<\/em> (e.g., the stakes of a wager).<\/p>\n I believe that this (mis)use of the noun “stakeholder” as a verb is consistent with my “Devolution toward Simpler” linguistic hypothesis, just as the misuse of the verb “install” as a noun in place of the longer words “installer” and “installation” is consistent with this hypothesis.<\/p>\n Solution:<\/strong> I saw this in an email message yesterday. Problem: “Stakeholder” is not a verb. Explanation: “Stakeholder the tool within the organization.” was the full sentence in the email message, which was describing a software application and was written to persons who, according to the message’s author, should feel that they had a stake in the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devolution-toward-simpler","category-nouns","category-verbs"],"yoast_head":"\n
\n“Stakeholder” is not<\/em> a verb.<\/p>\n
\n“Stakeholder the tool within the organization.” was the full sentence in the email message, which was describing a software application and was written to persons who, according to the message’s author, should feel that they had a stake in the software application’s success.<\/p>\n
\n“Create stakeholders in the tool …”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"