By Jordan Spencer Cunningham on August 10, 2010.
Who decided that ‘decadence’ dually means ‘rot-esque’ and ‘so tempting that one cannot begin to resist’? Someone who finds mushrooms a delicacy? There are several English words that I feel the need to destroy. I’m the type of English nerd who loves English so very much that he will sacrifice some of its nonessential, noncharacteristic stupidity. Like ‘hanged’. Idiotic and childish way to explain that someone was strangled with a rope by gravity. It ought to be ‘hung’. This is similar with ‘drowned’, but worse. He’s not about to drowned. He’s about to drown, you fool. A person can’t possibly do something in the past-tense in the present-tense, and our language ought to reflect that.
This one isn’t necessarily a part of the stupidrypha, but I do find questioning it rather intriguing:
If the past-tense form of ‘slide’ is ‘slid’, then shouldn’t the past-tense form of ‘glide’ be ‘glid’?
Oh, and let’s not forget the oft-contemplated goose/geese and moose/meese situation.
Published at 2:13 am.
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