Why isn't "receivement" a word?

[her209]

Instead of saying, "Payment was received on 1/16/2009", you can say, "Receivement was on 1/16/2009."

 

[quakefiend420]

newspeak ftw

 

[brblx]

Instead of saying, "Payment was received on 1/16/2009", you can say, "Receivement was on 1/16/2009."

'received on 1/16/2009,' there, professor.

 

[her209]

'recieved on 1/16/2009,' there, professor.

But its ambiguous, maybe "Received payment on 1/16/2009".

 

[Mike Gayner]

'received on 1/16/2009,' there, professor.

Fail. Payment is a noun, Received is an adjective. Receivement would also be a noun.

 

[SSSnail]

'received on 1/16/2009,' there, professor.

"Paid on 1/16/2009" :awe:

 

[brblx]

i just don't see how this proposed new word would make it less ambiguous?

 

[AreaCode707]

Because technically the correct word in that context would be "receipt" but few people use it in that form nowadays.

Receipt was on 1/16/2009
Receipt on 1/16/2009, more concisely

Alternatively you could say Received on 1/16/2009.

No need for a made up word.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/receipt
3 : the act or process of receiving

 

[coxmaster]

"Why isn't "receivement" a word?"

Because it sounds retarded

 

[lxskllr]

What's a recievement? What came on 1/16/2010? Santa Claus?

 

[brblx]

Fail. Payment is a noun, Received is an adjective. Receivement would also be a noun.

lol, how does that matter at all?

also received in this context would be a past tense verb. the implied subject recieved the payment. it's not describing the payment.

 

[Mike Gayner]

lol, how does that matter at all?

also received in this context would be a past tense verb. the implied subject recieved the payment. it's not describing the payment.

Because nouns and adjectives aren't interchangeable. Your suggestion would be ambiguous and difficult to understand. Don't drop English quite yet, genius.

 

[Sumguy]

Scanned thread, didn't see this.

The word you are looking for is receipt

Edit: whoops, scan failed, even used the same source

 

[IronWing]

I'm entitled to a receivement! From this point forward, when I remember to do so, I shall endeavor to slip the term receivement into my writing here on ATOT.

Eventually our good friends the business majors will realize that Receivements takes up less header space on their spreadsheets than 'Accounts Receivable'.

 

[F1N3ST]

Because it sounds retarded

I lol'd :awe:!!!!!!!!!!!1

 

[AreaCode707]

Because nouns and adjectives aren't interchangeable. Your suggestion would be ambiguous and difficult to understand. Don't drop English quite yet, genius.

While you are correct, language use changes over time. The word 'receipt' has fallen out of favor and the word 'received' has taken its' place in common use.

 

[brblx]

Because nouns and adjectives aren't interchangeable. Your suggestion would be ambiguous and difficult to understand. Don't drop English quite yet, genius.

i think you need to go back to english and learn more definitions.

'you are full of idiocy' and 'you are idiotic' would both describe you adequately, despite being different parts of speech.

 

[FoBoT]

i reciepted yooze money

 

[shortylickens]

Because it sounds retarded

Thats not the reason.
Wont is a contraction for will & not. And its a word.

 

[Sumguy]

Thats not the reason.
Wont is a contraction for will & not. And its a word.

You'd prefer "willn't" or "win't" then?

Actually it probably could have started off as "win't" and shifted to "won't" after a few generations based on how people heard and pronounced it.

 

[AreaCode707]

Thats not the reason.
Wont is a contraction for will & not. And its a word.

No, won't is a contraction for will and not. Wont is a separate word entirely.

 

[Eli]

Received is the word you're looking for. Receivement makes no sense.

 

[Schfifty Five]

You can achieve something which becomes an achievement.

You can receive something but it's not a receivement.

That's a good question OP, since achieve/achievement works, why not receivement?

 

[pontifex]

Fail. Payment is a noun, Received is an adjective. Receivement would also be a noun.

how is received an adjective? received is a verb...

 

[shortylickens]

You'd prefer "willn't" or "win't" then?

Actually it probably could have started off as "win't" and shifted to "won't" after a few generations based on how people heard and pronounced it.

If we had grown up with Willnt it would seem natural. But wont always seems weird.