Re: How did this abomination of a conjugation become normal communication?!?

Ron said on Sat, 26 Apr 2025 01:39:48 -0700

>Steve Litt wrote on 2025-04-13 23:55:
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>> my nation's leadership *drug* Canada and the rest of
>> this world into this bullshit  
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>How did this abomination of a conjugation become normal communication?
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>Drug?  It's "dragged"!
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>Why make an irregular form of the past tense of "drag" when the 
>irregular form would also be an existing present-tense verb (and a
>noun)?
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>Irregular verbs are not normal - it's in their name even.
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>Drug is already a verb and means something quite different.
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>I swear, soon people with communicate via a dozen emojis, exhortations 
>of "I'm laughing out loud (even though nothing actually funny 
>happened)", and some memes.
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>/old man & language nerd rant over

English! Nothing but exceptions. I guess I was figuring Swim Swam Swum,
so I dunno what happened. Let me rephrase:

my nation's leadership *dragged* Canada and the rest of
this world into this bullshit  

Really, when I originally typed it, I thunk I was doing it right.

SteveT

Steve Litt 

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