Lee is perterbed... yet again...Wow.
You know, you'd think I'd be better off now after years of maturing, but, simply put, there are these little things that just annoy me. I figured it out though! I'm a traditionalist, and I am also against big changes in the world. We'll just simply omit the political and other areas of highly debatable subject matter today, because I could talk for years...
Although, let's talk about English! Whee! Exciting I know. As writers, in a writing community, it has been nagging at me for a long time; so much that we simply needed a post about it. Therefore here we go.
"What is the past tense of hang?"
That little sentence has caused me so much anger and mental anguish this week that you wouldn't believe. The answer is "hanged." Not hung! What I learned in school is that 'hung' is the dialect past participle, so in other words "have hung" is the proper usage. In today's world, with the Internet, and everyone being a smart cookie, who undoubtedly is never wrong, even against someone with a writing degree, one can never be told differently.
I was in a few arguments this week and so, like any other scholar would, I researched. Half the answers I found were WRONG. Hung is not the past of hang. I was willing to concede though, if I found no argument that supported me. However, what shocked me was that when I looked in the O.E.D., or Oxford English Dictionary, I found that both are accepted.
Uhhh whaaaatt???!!! (<-- A little off topic but who the hell came up with that anyway? The whole "?!" LOL )
Well, I feel bad for hang. The verb. What a glorious little word corrupted by people speaking the English language wrong. It's really a shame that languages are slowly corrupted with time. I see it as a bad thing. Words like "shall," "hang," and all the misused homonyms (two, to, too for example), used wrong really make me want to cringe. But what makes it inevitably worse is that they are slowly accepted as correct, like "hang."
Who's doing this? And why? Why accept a right answer for one that has always been wrong? When is wrong ever right? Simple logic would dictate these people to be destroyers of academia; but, they are the ones in charge of its growth and development. Ugh! It makes Lee cry.
Anyway, I just wanted to get that out. I know most of you will either just laugh this off, think I'm weird, not care (Hiya Zuka!), or whatever, but, I care. I care that this change we are issuing on all facets of life is degrading us. I'm using English as an example but really substitute whatever subject matter you want there.
Here's an example of how this problem isn't recent. "Why do some of Shakespeare's sonnets not rhyme?"
Well the answer is the Great Vowel Shift, which in my opinion, made a hybrid English language and destroyed what English was back then. And we could also speak of the indocrination of all the foreign vocab into English, but, as I'm feeling very sick right now, I'm going to end this post.
Respond if you want to.
Lee
(I tried to make it short and sweet. I hope it wasn't to abrubpt. ( haha <- I meant "too" ) And, also, I apologize for my sloppiness in my posts. I recently found my Shrunk and White (the writers bible) and disciplined myself accordingly. )
It was either this or plagiarism... I thought I chose accrdingly...
You know, you'd think I'd be better off now after years of maturing, but, simply put, there are these little things that just annoy me. I figured it out though! I'm a traditionalist, and I am also against big changes in the world. We'll just simply omit the political and other areas of highly debatable subject matter today, because I could talk for years...
Although, let's talk about English! Whee! Exciting I know. As writers, in a writing community, it has been nagging at me for a long time; so much that we simply needed a post about it. Therefore here we go.
"What is the past tense of hang?"
That little sentence has caused me so much anger and mental anguish this week that you wouldn't believe. The answer is "hanged." Not hung! What I learned in school is that 'hung' is the dialect past participle, so in other words "have hung" is the proper usage. In today's world, with the Internet, and everyone being a smart cookie, who undoubtedly is never wrong, even against someone with a writing degree, one can never be told differently.
I was in a few arguments this week and so, like any other scholar would, I researched. Half the answers I found were WRONG. Hung is not the past of hang. I was willing to concede though, if I found no argument that supported me. However, what shocked me was that when I looked in the O.E.D., or Oxford English Dictionary, I found that both are accepted.
Uhhh whaaaatt???!!! (<-- A little off topic but who the hell came up with that anyway? The whole "?!" LOL )
Well, I feel bad for hang. The verb. What a glorious little word corrupted by people speaking the English language wrong. It's really a shame that languages are slowly corrupted with time. I see it as a bad thing. Words like "shall," "hang," and all the misused homonyms (two, to, too for example), used wrong really make me want to cringe. But what makes it inevitably worse is that they are slowly accepted as correct, like "hang."
Who's doing this? And why? Why accept a right answer for one that has always been wrong? When is wrong ever right? Simple logic would dictate these people to be destroyers of academia; but, they are the ones in charge of its growth and development. Ugh! It makes Lee cry.
Anyway, I just wanted to get that out. I know most of you will either just laugh this off, think I'm weird, not care (Hiya Zuka!), or whatever, but, I care. I care that this change we are issuing on all facets of life is degrading us. I'm using English as an example but really substitute whatever subject matter you want there.
Here's an example of how this problem isn't recent. "Why do some of Shakespeare's sonnets not rhyme?"
Well the answer is the Great Vowel Shift, which in my opinion, made a hybrid English language and destroyed what English was back then. And we could also speak of the indocrination of all the foreign vocab into English, but, as I'm feeling very sick right now, I'm going to end this post.
Respond if you want to.
Lee
(I tried to make it short and sweet. I hope it wasn't to abrubpt. ( haha <- I meant "too" ) And, also, I apologize for my sloppiness in my posts. I recently found my Shrunk and White (the writers bible) and disciplined myself accordingly. )
It was either this or plagiarism... I thought I chose accrdingly...
