Re: [PATCH v3 01/16] doc: pull: explain what is a fast-forward

> Take for example the word "calibration". It is a noun, but you can't
> point to any calibration thing. It comes from the verb calibrating,
> and such conversions are called nominalizations.
>
> I'm currently re-reading The Sense of Style, and it's interesting that
> in Chapter 2 Steven Pinker mentions precisely these nouns, which he
> calls "zombie nouns". They certainly do exist, and people use them,
> but they suck the lifeblood out of prose. Take for example
> "comprehension checks were used as exclusion criteria" (zombie nouns),
> compared to "we excluded people who failed to understand the
> instructions" (live verbs).