'The word pedants' top 10 | It's specific, not Pacific...' blog discussion.

DVardysShadow

fatal1955 wrote: »

• A big ask (nouning a verb)
• She loaned him £20 (verbing a noun)
• "How are you?" "Oh, I'm good" (my question was about your health, not your morals)

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• Nouning a Verb (verbing a noun)
• Verbing a Noun (verbing a noun)

kneelbeforezod

DVardysShadow wrote: »

I'm well set into middle-age as I find it infuriating when people use the word 'hit' in the past tense. "He hit me", surely it should be hitted?

You might find your infuriation better directed at yourself

The past tense of 'hit' is 'hit'. I've never come across anyone using the term "hitted", and my research indicates it is not a word in standard English.

John_Pierpoint

My grandson would use such a past tense, he must have been reading "Chomsky".

When he starts at primary school in the Autumn, he will have such nonsense drummed out of him.

[Being serious for a moment: As native English speakers, don't we owe a duty of care and understanding, both to the language and to the millions (billions?) of poor devils who have to learn it as a second language?]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky

[As the parent of a handicapped child, I know that there are parts of the brain intended to process language. They have to be grown/trained in the period of 8 months to 8 years. After that the child should know its "mother tongue" (if she does - beware of au pair girls) and will find acquiring other peoples' mother tongues much more difficult.]

DVardysShadow

kneelbeforezod wrote: »

You might find your infuriation better directed at yourself

The past tense of 'hit' is 'hit'. I've never come across anyone using the term "hitted", and my research indicates it is not a word in standard English.

Obviously the point i was making about 'text' as the past of 'text' went completely over your head. Better luck next time.

kneelbeforezod

DVardysShadow wrote: »

Obviously the point i was making about 'text' as the past of 'text' went completely over your head. Better luck next time.

Oh I see - you're complaining about the construction of the English language and not people's misuse of it (which is what I thought this thread was about? )

Truly you are a pedant's pedant!

DVardysShadow

kneelbeforezod wrote: »

Oh I see - you're complaining about the construction of the English language and not people's misuse of it

Actually, I was, in a roundabout way, offering 'hit' as the precedent for 'text', which Andrew_BT was complaining about.

kneelbeforezod

DVardysShadow wrote: »

Actually, I was, in a roundabout way, offering 'hit' as the precedent for 'text', which Andrew_BT was complaining about.

Oh, ok In my daily life I try to avoid any hitting or texting so the issue doesn't normally arise

DVardysShadow

kneelbeforezod wrote: »

Oh, ok In my daily life I try to avoid any hitting or texting so the issue doesn't normally arise

I agree. When you tell people what you have been doing, it avoids awkward past tenses.

KimYeovil

From a Cineworld programme: "Mars Need Moms".

Welshwoofs

Some of my pet hates include:

1. "It cost me 300 pound."
2. "I got off of the bus."
3. "So I says....then he says....so I says."
4. "That was a damp squid."
5. "I had a lovely desert."
6. "The hotel room had complementary mints."
7. "We were all there, accept Mark."
8. "We'll need to altar that."
9. "I want to loose weight."
10. Treating 'disinterested' and 'uninterested' as the same word.

I'm sure there are many more, but if I ponder on the matter I'll probably start foaming at the mouth.