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Why do Americans insist on making a large number of past tense events a verb with d on the end? |
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Because they are fat |
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maybe they could just leave out the 'd'.. |
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As good a reason as any I have been able to come up with (none). |
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because words are meant to be fucked with. |
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i'm glad you guys finally called me on that one. i've been the one writing the rules for american grammer. |
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Lack of creativity? Some sort of control obsession (action word = control (oh shit that's a stretch)). A really sucky 'american word', not of the style you mentioned, is 'offsite'.. there are probably lots of other instances of a fucking ADJECTIVE used as a noun.. |
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the're all just cunts |
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HAHAHA :D |
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haha :) although i think it's far more annoying the way they "verb" words, using nouns as verbs, usually just because they're too [fat and] lazy and stupid to know how to say what they want to say with words already that already exist and provide for such circumstances. there was a calvin & hobbes cartoon about this.. "verbing weirds language".. classic. |
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i was going to say "but when calvin says it it's ok" but you seem to be one step ahead |
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i just want to add that it is beyond my brain power to understand the first post |
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what they want to say with words already that already exist I'm basking in your glow, Irish genius, sir.. Oh, sorry, baskinged. |
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I thought this was going to be about the stupid hiphopslang and other retarded language that's populating internet forums nowadays. Random example: "U PPL IZ FOOLS MAN, ARGUEIN WICH RAPPA IZ DA BESTEST DEY ALL REEL AND PLAUS JAY-Z AINT DAT BAD 4 UR INFOMRATION HES 1 UV DA REALEST EMCEEZ BUT U DUNNO IF U WANNA LIK HIZ SHIT CUZ IT IN DA CHARTZ U FOOLS WOT WOT IT DA RWAL GODZ LIK DAT SIRIOSULY!!!" |
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That was next, although I just choose to not read nonsense like that. :) burglarized is a word that particularly irks me. |
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yes! that one makes my head spin. it sounds like a word Bush would think up. |
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In America, burgle means "To consume a large quantity of White Castle hamburgers" |
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Pwned |
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lol |
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Getting hit by a chair = Chaired Getting covered in broccoli = Broccolied or Broccolified Move that new white truck offsite, or it will get seagull-poopified. |
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movify that new white truck.. etc. etc. |
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They done blown up ma habiTAT |
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'I ain't no ......' |
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no, they smell good |
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what is past tense of burgle? Plus, burgle just sounds gay. Like the english accent. |
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all I can say is, anyone who sits around getting pissed off by the addition of a 'd' at the end of the word is a fucking fruit. get something more important to give a shit about, for christ's sake. this thread = LAMED |
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Zephyr Twin, sometimes I really pity your stupidity...you seem to have completely missed the rather simple point of this topic (hint: it had nothing to do with the additional d which is commonly used in all dialects of the English language to symbolise a past event). Suggestion: Go back and read what the topic is about again and stop making yourself look like a twat. |
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lack of intelligence is never an excuse for a lack of manners try to think about something longer than 3 seconds next time |
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oh yeh, you = LAMED |
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how can the english accent be gay? there are many accents in england alone. |
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Kushty innit |
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He's just angry 'cause he is gay too. |
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one might think that's the case. |
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america RULEZ, thats whyd! |
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this thread done angried up mah blood, consarnit. |
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excusify me: this *here* thread. now mah post is correctified up proper-like. |
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What annoys me is install programs with American English bunch of other stupid languages Internation English another bunch of stupid languages Now where the fuck is the proper English? I don't want American with Z's where S's should be and all that shite. I want all my U's thank you very much. I don't know what International English is. I'm assuming that's what they're calling proper English. Fucking motherfucking fuckers. |
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america RULED.. oh do please pay attention.. |
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kickassed |
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Any one who still uses fortnight needs to shut the fuck up. |
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Yeah. America sucks. We are all completely uneducated. It's hard to believe we get by at all. By the way. How's your computer treating you? Or for that matter, the electricity that powers it? Maybe the lights in your house? - Let's not forget the internet that you have the freedom to rant on - Yeah. We give nothing to the world. Just idiot hillbillies. - Look - Slang is a constant. Language is alive. It will always change. There are so many versions of every dialect that it can be crazy trying to keep up. I personally like the differences - Makes things interesting... But maybe that's just me. |
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I don't see whay anyone has to rule. We - need to rule. Everyone. the world is changing. knowledge is out there. We need to tackle it together. (growing pains suck) |
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ecnadniarb, sometimes I really pity your total lack of genitalia. There is nothing wrong with being a female, but I can't help feeling sorry for asexuals. At any rate, I understood exactly what you meant, and if you look at what I said you'd realize that it fits within the context of what you are talking about. (hint: "this thread = LAMED") I said "anyone who sits around getting pissed off by the addition of a 'd' at the end of the word is a fucking fruit." This is precisely what you are talking about, taking a word and making it into a verb by adding a d on the end, or did you somehow forget that? Or, instead, could it be that *gasp* you missed the point of what I was saying? Why exactly is it that you are such an intelligent, charismatic person (I'm not trying to be sarcastic) who should be out making the world better but instead sit around typing on an internet messageboard worrying so much about something so trivial as American grammar. It's clear that you (and most of the posters in this thread) hate (or at least have something against) Americans, so why not just come out with it already rather than beating around the bush with constant threads of "American grammar is stupid" or "Americans are fat and lazy" just to bait in the Americans on this board who will obviously defend themselves. Obviously not all Americans are fat and lazy and not all of them bastardize words by turning them into verbs, so stop insulting my intelligence with your passive-aggressive bullshit. jaroen: you've got your head so far up lee's ass that daylight is nothing but a myth to you. stop being a 12 year old troll, and get a fucking life. I used to think of you as more than just an ass-kissing pansy, but it appears I was wrong. My mistake. |
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psuedo-intellectual cunts.. the lot of you. except bogala and gl1tch, they seem alright. the rest of you need to shut your computers and tvs off and stop watching network news for awhile. no, seriously. when you feel you need to point out a difference in another culture with some marked superiority (be honest, thats what it is) by comparing it to yours, all you are doing is feeding the paradigm that the very thing you hate created in the first place. europeans (of course not all, i talk with many bright people daily) preaching hate and generalizations about America as a whole is perhaps one of the more humorus hypocritical social attitudes of the early 21st century. and besides, we all know this inner anger or annoyance is due to "American Imperialism" or the Iraq War or the Middle East in general.. but aye, lets not forget who fucked all that shit up in the first place, or who the real OG Imperialists are. ya slags. hey i got an idea.. why don't you go find another country like India and wait till a national day of meditation is called then open fire on the lot of them. maybe we'll get another ghandi out of it. that would rock. |
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i dont care if i was mostly off topic... my point has been made. besides: kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle kackle |
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oh no, you've really done it now. Now they're never going to shut up. |
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just because other countries have committed atrocities does not justify america's. in fact, one could argue that it is worse to deny history's lessons and not rise above the mistakes and murder of the past. i don't think you've made a particularly good point at all. |
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Who says anyone rose from their mistakes? I love when people say you can't compare. Yes, you can compare. You need two or more points along the scale to measure anything. And most people can't stand hypocrites. So, they have to call them out. You want sweeping generalizations? All Germans are Nazis. Is that true? |
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i say it's better to learn from the past. i didn't say what countries succeeded in doing this - i pointed out that america did not. the united states is feeding the cycle of violence. my point is that no killings are justified - it's up to you and me to try and make sure our country is not responsible for senseless deaths. |
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No, it's up to you to sit on your high horse and make judgments. That's also a part of the cycle. In case you didn't notice. No one learns from the past. Did you listen to your parents all the time? Of course not. You made the very same mistakes they did, but you had to experience them for yourself. It's human nature. You hope for a Utopian society. I doubt it's coming. With each new generation to follow and burn their hands on the fire. |
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