easify (transitive verb)
- The act of joining behind a facade disjoint entities, processes, or tasks.
- Making a complex entity, process, or task close at hand by addition of another entity, process, or task.
Antonyms
- Simplify
easified (adjective)
- To have made easier.
Antonyms
- Simplifed
Some preamble that I feel bad about including, but feel the need to: in the discourse between simple and easy (they are different, see link below) their is an implicit value claim: simple is better than easy. I think the implicit value claim of simple being better than easy always is wrong. Therefore, bringing this shiny new word into the world is an attempt to provide precise language about tradeoffs. Sometimes making something easy is desirable and the right course of action, sometimes it is simple.
Now, onto the show...
A Hacker News comment made my pedantry senses tingle. Therefore, why not write a small post in an attempt to move the English language into a (hopefully) less ambiguous future.
Me when folks say "simplify" in most contexts.
First off, I will not cover the entirety the word "simple". Please watch this quick overview of the origin of "simple". The word simple being deployed in a conversation is typically a claim about personal preference. Objectively claiming something is simple is much more difficult. Hence why "simple" is often a claim that leads to confusion and woe, as the recipient of the claim may not perceive the claimant's "simple" view. Therefore, the claimant's justification for "simple" is merely their expression of what they consider simple to be. It is therefore, ambiguous, and not helpful when deployed in such a manner. I advise only deploying simple as an accurate state of the world when it is objectively appropriate.
One may say to have a conviction that the current dictionaries & thesauri [1][2][3] having a relation between simple and easy -- in some cases being as synonyms -- is quite arrogant. Not so, I'm afraid. For if such a disposition was to be held for all time, we'd have an immutable language. We do not have an immutable language. Therefore, some arrogance about words and what they mean is appropriate. And I have decided to be (graciously) arrogant about this one.
Please join me in the crusade for precise language, where appropriate of course.
- https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/simple#synonym-discussion
- https://www.dictionary.com/browse/simple
- https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/simple