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Writers are on strike

Writers are on strike

Writers are on strike

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I'm watching the news the other night and the reporter is commentating on Joe Gibb deciding to leave the Redskins.

The reporter may have been reading cue cards written by a replacement writer as the reporter's statement was (loosely quoted)...

Joe Gibbs RE-SIGNED...err...that is RESIGNED from the Washington Redskins today.

RE: Writers are on strike

I was listening to the radio, and the reporter was commenting on the young girl that committed suicide due to MySpace postings by the mother of her ex-boyfriend.  The reporter used the word "hanged" and in, "She hanged herself."  I always thought that would have been "hung".

We need the writers back I think.

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RE: Writers are on strike

MadMango,

No. For some reason the weak form (hanged) is used for "put to death by hanging". Don't ask me why!

M

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Dr Michael F Platten

RE: Writers are on strike

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MadMango,
I was also of the thought that the past tense 'hung' was proper, and raised the issue with my high school aged son when the hanging of Saddam took place.


 

RE: Writers are on strike

I belive that it is because it is actually two different verbs:
1: hang - hung - hung, which is either what you do: "I hung my jacket in the closet" or the situation something is in: "The jacket hung in the closet".
2: hang - hanged - hanged, which means to be killed by hanging.

Benta.

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Ok, I'll buy that.  Just don't try to sell me on "shooted".

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... or burglarized!

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BTW,The Hollywood writers strike does not include the news writers. It's just american english sliding further.

--Mike--

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I saw a good one the other night - a Fox News report on a missing woman said in a big title block at the bottom of the screen that she was missing in the "Moutains".

RE: Writers are on strike

I'll bet ol' Joe wishes he was could have re-signed instead of resigned.   How much difference a dash makes...

I wonder if George B will step in like Ron R did for the air traffic controllers in the 1980's.  Surely he consiiders this a crisis of similar proportions. But at least we still have the Beavis and Butthead reruns.

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"BTW,The Hollywood writers strike does not include the news writers. It's just american english sliding further."

i get my news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.  History is written by the victors (unless on strike).

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I remember asking a software engineer what her variable
KEYS TO REENTRY was about. She looked at me very puzzled.
I showed her the software with her variable KEYSTOREENTRY.
Oh, she said, KEY STORE ENTRY!

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They hung the picture.
They hanged Saddam.

Benta is correct that there are two verbs which decline differently.

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From the verb to burgle comes the noun burglar: someone who burgles. The Americans have a habit of turning nouns into verbs: hospital to hospitalize, so it is very funny to hear the Americans say burglarize. Maybe the English should reply with sentences like "he is a burglarizer" instead of burglar and other people could chip in with "it was a burglarization" instead of burglary, or "my house was burglarizationed". smile

Right, I'm off to cookerize my roastation. smile

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I heard "bulglarized" on the London evening news the other evening.

My pet peeve of the moment is the use of myself for me, him/herself for him/her, etc.  Classic mangling of the English language:  I went into a branch of a well-known British pharmacy for some cough medicine a few weeks ago and the female assistant said, "I have to ask yourself some questions first."  Grrrrr.

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When writing software I always capitalise the individual words in a concatenated name like KeyStoreEntry, to avoid the confusion mentioned by crystalclear above, besides as mentioned before in this forum, all capitals looks nasty!

All lower case with no spaces can give troubles too; I believe the Experts Exchange website (a great software forum) originally had a lot of enquiries for expert sex change before they hyphenated it.

Trevor Clarke. (R & D) Scientific Instruments.Somerset. UK

SW2007x64 SP3.0 Pentium P4 3.6Ghz, 4Gb Ram ATI FireGL V7100 Driver: 8.323.0.0
SW2007x32 SP4.0 Pentium P4 3.6Ghz, 2Gb Ram NVIDIA Quadro FX 500 Driver: 6.14.10.7756

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Did you hear the one about the plastic surgeon who hung himself. (He did not commit suicide)

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