Is the word yearling appropriate for a recurring event?
Any Stack Overflow site has a 1-year-old “Like” badge.
Active member for a year, earning at least 200 reputation.
Can badge be handed out separately to all visitors?
If reputation has gone up 200%, your yearling gets a badge?
Is it good to call a person a year old?
What made sense as a first year participant in a website?
Does yearling still apply for your second, third or more years of participation to come?
If not what is a more appropriate term for that kind of achievement?
How do I prepare my questions?
In the context of the stackexchange, “yearling” could be issued 12 months from when the account was opened. If the account is more or less stagnant for 12 months, it could be issued again 18 months after the first one.
What does a flaky cigarette sound like? “Yearling” implies one-year-old, not “did something in a year; then did it again, in another year on the same site”
Assuming it refers to the account on the site and not the person who created it, one could argue it’s technically accurate.
As adjective, the NOAD defines yearling as having lived or existed for a year; a year old.
Dictionary. com defines adjective as meaning of a year’s duration…
In recurrent events annual is the word I would use. If you interpret existed for a year as using a relative reference, then yearling could be used to describe the badge.
Assuming it refers to the account on the site and not the person who created it, one could argue it’s technically accurate.
As others have pointed out, yearling does not have a recurring event. All Other than StackOverflow. When we speak of the age of animals, it seems to only be used in English when referring to horses. For recurring events the word you should probably make is either annual or anniversary or yearly. Because the word anniversaries can be used differently, the word yearly can be used. As a native English speaker, I am much more likely to use only “annually” than “yearly”.
If StackOverflow were to include children as toddlers it would not surprise me.
The word ‘yearling’ is almost exclusively used for young animals like sheep, goats and deer and certainly not used in repetitive things. What is a pin for your first year, second year or third year? Do birthday parties just happen once in years in the years?
The word ‘yearling’ is almost exclusively used for young animals like sheep, goats and deer and certainly not used in repetitive things. What is a pin for your first year, second year or third year? Do birthday parties just happen once in years in the years?
As others have pointed out, yearling does not have a recurring event. All Other than StackOverflow. When we speak of the age of animals, it seems to only be used in English when referring to horses. For recurring events the word you should probably make is either annual or anniversary or yearly. Because the word anniversaries can be used differently, the word yearly can be used. As a native English speaker, I am much more likely to use only “annually” than “yearly”.
If StackOverflow were to include children as toddlers it would not surprise me.
In the context of the stackexchange, “yearling” could be issued 12 months from when the account was opened. If the account is more or less stagnant for 12 months, it could be issued again 18 months after the first one.
What does a flaky cigarette sound like? “Yearling” implies one-year-old, not “did something in a year; then did it again, in another year on the same site”
As others have pointed out, yearling does not have a recurring event. All Other than StackOverflow. When we speak of the age of animals, it seems to only be used in English when referring to horses. For recurring events the word you should probably make is either annual or anniversary or yearly. Because the word anniversaries can be used differently, the word yearly can be used. As a native English speaker, I am much more likely to use only “annually” than “yearly”.
If StackOverflow were to include children as toddlers it would not surprise me.
