multiplicity

[Mark Mandel]

Like Wilson, I "log in to" a db, forum, etc., never *"login to" it. I
don't always bother to correct my speech recognition if it produces
"log into...", but I try never to let it slip "login" as a verb past
me. "Login" is for me a perfectly good noun, though, as 20 minutes ago
when I looked out the window, saw the rain pouring down, and asked if
there was a computer I could use in this building. "Sure. Hey Ryan, is
___ in?" "No." "Do you have a login on her computer?"

m a m

On 7/30/07, Marc Sacks <msacks at theworld.com> wrote:
> Wilson,
>
> I don't think the meaning of "into" has changed over the years: one goes
> into something, then one is in it.  The database is "out there" until one
> logs "into" it. Of course no one would say "are you logged into?" but I
> think I would generally use "into" with logged.
>
> On the other hand, is it they of an even younger generation who now use
> "login" as a single word, or just unthinking tech writers?
>
> Marc Sacks
> msacks at theworld.com
>
>
> > We of an older generation would write "log in to multiple databases
> > ...," as opposed to "log into ..." All will agree, I think, that one
> > would write, "Are you logged in?" or even "Are you logged-in?" but
> > never, "Are you logged into?"
> >
> > -Wilson

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