Unironically, I totally agree. Commentator is dumb and redundant, commenter is the superior alternative.
Just because you do it for a living, doesn’t mean that it’s a different title; a carpenter doesn’t become a carpentator because it’s a paying job. A pilot doesn’t become a pilotator when they get paid for it.
Unironically, I totally agree. Commentator is dumb and redundant, commenter is the superior alternative.
Just because you do it for a living, doesn’t mean that it’s a different title; a carpenter doesn’t become a carpentator because it’s a paying job. A pilot doesn’t become a pilotator when they get paid for it.
+1 for the efficient solution. Commenter = comment + er. Er is the English suffix meaning one who “does”. Baker. Maker. Commenter.
Commentate is only a verb by virtue of commentator being a noun. We don’t need it.
I am COMPUTATOR
WHAT’S TATOR, PRECIOUS??
The destroyer of worlds!
THE DESTRUCTATOR!
APOTATOCALYPSE!
Commentators don’t comment though, they commentate.
Comment ≠ commentate