Comments on: Untitled Just Because

By: MissKris

MissKris — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 01:57:50 +0000

The tenses of words drive me nuts, too. But the conundrum that drives me crazy is how many words can be spelled out of one word?? Like in the game “Text Twist”. With me, something like that is more from my slightly — did I say slightly?!? — obsessive/compulsive tendencies. I can be riding my bike in the basement, see a word like “detergent” on the side of a bottle, and spend my hour trying to think of every word I can make out of that one. And I’ll find myself doing it at odd hours the rest of the day, too. Drives me INSANE!! So I don’t play those kinds of games very often, haha!

By: red fish

red fish — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 01:54:09 +0000

oops! I meant flang is definitely getting the shaft. (But come to think of thring thrang and thrung should be words too, don’t you think?)

By: red fish

red fish — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 01:47:20 +0000

Spring Sprang Sprung even has a game named after it. Thrang is definitely getting the shaft.

By: Macromoments

Macromoments — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:44:06 +0000

Hmmm.
How about throw, threw, thrung?
Makes perfect sense to me.

By: Anvilcloud

Anvilcloud — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:29:12 +0000

Funny language, eh? (See, I can say “eh?” ’cause I’m Canadian, but I don’t suppose that you feel compelled to.) I guess usage usually predated rules.

By: Charmed

Charmed — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 22:24:34 +0000

Ya’ll are most definitely not from the south, we flang things while we’re swangin all the time.

By: ann adams

ann adams — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:43:59 +0000

ring, rang, rung?

English is so wierd.

By: mrs darling

mrs darling — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:31:54 +0000

Well its the same with swing swang and swung. Swang is not a word. Weird.

By: Sarah S.

Sarah S. — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:44:29 +0000

We DON’T have the word “flang”? I feel certain I’ve heard some of my southern relatives say that — but I think they are talking about the latest Hollywood romance. Let’s go on a crusade to incorporate “flang” into our vocabulary!

By: alisa

alisa — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:01:57 +0000

Now I know why I don’t blog-you say it all for me!!!and why can’t we use the word “brung” bring, brang, brung??