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Arvsworld Posted 20 years ago
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new words?

0how many people out there have accepted hearing and have started using these words:02br
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00think... thunk02br
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00email... emailed02br
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00text... texted (cellphone)02br
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00shit... shat02br
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00google (search engine)... googled02br
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00archive... archived02br
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00generally, any word people invent a tense for. opinions, anyone?02br
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0Certainly not new, many of them, and each with its own story:02br 02br 01i 00Thunk02i 00, as far as I know, has always been considered jocular when used by an adult; it is a child's common paradigmatic error. 02i 00 [by analogy with 01i 00sink02i 00/01i 00sunk02i 00; interestingly it also occurs as a mid-Yorkshire dialect form]02br 02br 01i 00Emailed, googled02i 00 and 01i 00archived02i 00 follow the contemporary rule of regular past ending for any new coinages: 01i 00videotaped, morphed, nuked02i 00, and on and on, especially in technology. 0-

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  • 0Certainly not new, many of them, and each with its own story:02br 02br 01i 00Thunk02i 00, as far as I know, has always been considered jocular when used by an adult; it is a child's common paradigmatic error.
  • 02i 00 [by analogy with 01i 00sink02i 00/01i 00sunk02i 00; interestingly it also occurs as a mid-Yorkshire dialect form]02br 02br 01i 00Emailed, googled02i 00 and 01i 00archived02i 00 follow the contemporary rule of regular past ending for any new coinages: 01i 00videotaped, morphed, nuked02i 00, and on and on, especially in technology.
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0Certainly not new, many of them, and each with its own story:02br
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01i00Thunk02i00, as far as I know, has always been considered jocular when used by an adult; it is a child's common paradigmatic error. From the Macquarie Dictionary: 02br
01b00thunk02b00 01i00verb02i00 a jocular past tense or past
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0"Texted" is out there. Although every time I use it (which I do unconsciously), I stop and mentally ask myself if that's really a word. But everyone to whom I say it knows what I mean. "Text me" is very common. 0-
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