Mike ([info]hawkstone) wrote,
@ 2008-08-28 18:55:00
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On Writing Wrongly #1
snown

Example: It has frequently snown upon the Stampeders Labour Day Classic.

Since the past participles of grow and blow are neither "growed" nor "blowed," why are we asked to accept "snowed"? Break this rule and employ the logical and charming snown.

See also: snew


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[info]cgyrask
2008-08-29 02:35 pm UTC (link)
What's snew?

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[info]hawkstone
2008-08-29 03:38 pm UTC (link)
I don't know, what snew with you?

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[info]mfiles
2008-08-29 02:43 pm UTC (link)
Welcome to English, where the exceptions ARE the rule. The plural of mouse is mice, but the plural of house isn't hice.

I is always before E except after C...and then there's WEIRD.

Is there a particular reason you've chosed to take issue with snowed?

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[info]hawkstone
2008-08-29 03:37 pm UTC (link)
Just because I'm going to start noting all the mistakes I make on purpose because they amuse me. That seems more interesting than complaining about the mistakes people make inadvertently. There're lots of blogs for that.

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[info]doctorobnoxious
2008-08-29 04:56 pm UTC (link)
lol - wtf!?

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[info]sraointe
2008-08-29 07:49 pm UTC (link)
I believe that when I decided to start learning Japanese and people asked me why I would try to learn such a hard language an argement began amoungst many people. At the time I was working with someone who had learned 4 languages, was learning her 5th and her father knew 10.
Apparnetly ENGLISH is one of the hardest languages to learn. The reason? We have rules but listen to them infrequently with no actual rule on when to disboey the rules.

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