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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
"blue" as a verb
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On the show "Arrested Development" one of the characters says "I just blue myself" meaning that he just painted himself blue. The joke is obviously a play on words with the word "blew" in mind.
Someone I know said "I just blue myself last night". I told the person that his grammar was incorrect, and that the actual phrase would be "I just blued myself last night" since the past tense of "blue" would be "blued".
He is arguing that to verbify any noun, -ed must be added EVEN in present tense. I find this to be incorrect. Is it true? As far as I know, to verbify blue you can just use it as a verb in a sentence. I argued that "I just blue myself" is an arguably proper verbification of the word blue.
He says that SINCE -ed was not added to the present tense of the word blue, then he is correct in following suit and using "blue" as the past tense of the verb because the original verbification of the word was not correct.
THE SUMMARY
On the show "Arrested Development" one of the characters says "I just blue myself" meaning that he just painted himself blue. The joke is obviously a play on words with the word "blew" in mind.
Someone I know said "I just blue myself last night". I told the person that his grammar was incorrect, and that the actual phrase would be "I just blued myself last night" since the past tense of "blue" would be "blued".
He is arguing that to verbify any noun, -ed must be added EVEN in present tense. I find this to be incorrect. Is it true? As far as I know, to verbify blue you can just use it as a verb in a sentence. I argued that "I just blue myself" is an arguably proper verbification of the word blue.
He says that SINCE -ed was not added to the present tense of the word blue, then he is correct in following suit and using "blue" as the past tense of the verb because the original verbification of the word was not correct.
THE SUMMARY
- the original phrase is "I just blue myself".
- I argue that it is a proper verbification and the past tense should be "blued"
- my friend argues that it is a improper verbification and the past tense can be "blue"
Top answer
Anonymous one of the characters says "I just blue myself" meaning that he just painted himself blue. Anonymous He is arguing that to verbify any noun, -ed must be added EVEN in present tense. I find this to be incorrect.
- Anonymous one of the characters says "I just blue myself" meaning that he just painted himself blue.
- Anonymous He is arguing that to verbify any noun, -ed must be added EVEN in present tense.
- I find this to be incorrect.
- " I just finished.
- ) Not I just finish.
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Anonymous one of the characters says "I just blue myself" meaning that he just painted himself blue.
AnonymousHe is arguing that to verbify any noun, -ed must be added EVEN in present tense. I find this to be incorrect.The key is the word "just."
I just finished. (past tense.)
Not I just finis
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