Text 47984, 62 rader
Skriven 2007-01-31 21:07:42 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
  Kommentar till text 47972 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
Ärende: ASSumptions
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01 Feb 07 00:42, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Roy Witt:

 MvdV>>> Or maybe he should practise what he preaches and not make so
 MvdV>>> many ASSumptions. You wrote "runed" and he obviously ASSumed
 MvdV>>> you meant "ruined". My conjecture is that you meant "run".
 RW>> If that were so, he would have used two Ns. Runned, btw, is not a
 RW>> proper English word
 MvdV> I know that.

 RW>> and the ASSumption that he meant 'runned' is absurd.
 MvdV> That was nobody's assumption but yours. Read again, I wrote "run",
 MvdV> not "runned".

And you ASSumed that he meant to write run, when he didn't.

 MvdV> Other than that, the assumption may be absurd for a native speaker,
 MvdV> for a non native speaker this is different.

Not if they know English, or even claim to know it.

 MvdV> Adding "ed" - with or without duplicating the last consonant - to
 MvdV> obtain the passive form is fully consistent.

But wrong in your use of 'ed' after run.

 MvdV> Stab, stabbed. Walk, walked. Bark, barked. Shag, shagged. Gun,
 MvdV> gunned. Ruin, ruined. Run, runed.

Pretty close on all but 'run', which means you don't get a cigar. Run does
not equate to runed. Runed and runned are not a word in the English
language, although rune is.

Forsstrom's mispelling and the use of the word 'runed' indicates that he
was probably speaking in terms of past tense and that's assuming that he
knew what he was talking about. The past tense for run is 'ran' -  not
runed or runned.

 RW>> Shannon should have asked for a clarification, but I'm betting he
 RW>> was tired of dealing with dickhead the bigot and didn't think of it
 RW>> as 'runned', just like I didn't.

 MvdV> But you did. *YOU* are the only one coming up with "runned".

There is no such word in the English language and I know that. You
apparently don't.

 MvdV> Björn wrote "runed", Shannon wrote "ruined".

And as it turns out, Shannon and I are correct; Forstrom meant ruined.

 MvdV> I wrote "run". You wrote "runned".

Runed and runned are not words in the English language...your arguement
is futile.

               R\%/itt




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