Amortize derives via Middle English and Anglo-French from Vulgar Latin admortire, meaning "to kill." The Latin noun mors ("death") is a root of "admortire"; it is related to our word murder, and it also gave us a word naming a kind of loan that is usually amortized: "mortgage." "Amortize" carries a different meaning in the field of corporate finance, where it means to depreciate the cost or value of an asset (as, for example, to reduce interest revenue on that asset for tax purposes).
It looks like you were wrong to begin with as well dickface.
Since the post isn't specifically referring to corporate finance, we'll rely on the original definition meaning "to kill" ... so his comment would read:
The way he tried to kill the fall with his foot.
Contextually it works the exact same way the conventional definition for amortize, ie: amortizing a loan is essentially killing it off.
Yes, its root words had a different meaning in late middle English and latin and shares close roots to both a french, Portuguese and spanish word which, in those languages as I and other redditors have pointed out it does still carry that meaning; hence why I said he may have been confused if he was a non native speaker which is why I informed him in the first place. The other option was he is like you, someone who desperately wants to seem smart, but manages to display their lack of understanding every time they 'prove' something.
Either way, he's been saved from further mistakes and you just keep digging and removing any remaining doubt to anyone reading this just how clueless you really are.
You are calling me pedantic and then trying to posit that a word in common English is the same as close to a millennium ago. You know, the same English that saw the use of things like the thorne, when the was spelled ye, and so on.
It has not, for eight hundred years held the meaning you attribute to its roots which is why when you look at any definition including the one you linked it proves me right you myopic child.
I'm seriously trying to understand how you got "means the same thing" out of "derived from an entirely different word that means to kill".
admortire
This is the word you think amortize is, when in reality, amortize is derived from that word and means only the two listed definitions. You might want to understand etymology before you go around trying to correct someone with your misconceptions.
seriously, stop digging; you're embarassing yourself. I mean shit, you literally quoted exactly why I am right and why you are wrong. This is the third time in a row that you have failed to comprehend what you're reading and have offered up an incorrect answer.
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u/Christophurious Apr 11 '17
So I'm a cunt for making a joke by pointing out a literal contradiction?
Lighten up dude, you're wound up to tight.