Alias reverse: laugh & laughing

The current alias has laughing -> laugh

It should be laugh -> laughing, to match our decision to use the continuous verb form for these things.

I can't help but agree, here.

Same. Verb -> Gerund

The noun form seems more common. We have smile, wink, grin, frown, blush, pout, and wince, and that's just facial expressions.

Well, you can't really take a picture of a laugh (unless you're, like, graphing the soundwaves), so gerund seems more fitting.

evazion said:
The noun form seems more common. We have smile, wink, grin, frown, blush, pout, and wince, and that's just facial expressions.

If possible shouldn't all of those have an -ing especially if they are doing it in the picture.
And the fact that in a few days people are going to probably ask to Alias them, it would kinda save time.

Just a suggestion.

evazion said: The noun form seems more common.

On older tags we haven't gotten around to changing. Current site policy favors gerunds when appropriate. sometimes it can be awkward, like kiss -> kissing so it's not a completely unbreakable rule.

Aliased to laughing.

We don't have a real policy when it comes to most of these where the word could be interpreted either as a noun or a verb. For things like kiss, smile, grin, blush, etc, I think keeping it as a noun looks better. The primary reason to use the gerund form is to make verbs into nouns. Why should we do that when the word is a noun to begin with?

Shinjidude said: Why should we do that when the word is a noun to begin with?

Almost anything can be used as a noun and most nouns can be turned into a verb though. Is it really that clear which one it "began" as?

Regardless, I'd say the primary reason to use the gerund form isn't simply "to make it a noun" but more specifically "to make it an action".