Related to my last post...

[conuly]

[Poll #396906]

Comments

[frogmajick.livejournal.com]

See, it just depends, are you talking past tense or past participle? We had this discussion about words like funner. Grammatically it ought to be more fun, but funner is {grammar term that escapes me}.

[conuly]

*blinks*

I don't know.

Um.

I set the book down every day (present)
I set the book down yesterday (past)

I feed the cat, I fed the cat.

[frogmajick.livejournal.com]

I knit a a scarf for my dog. My grandma knitted a scarf for me to match. She brought it to me and petted my dog. I told her he likes that, I pet him yesterday and he drooled.

My example doesn't really tell you why though. Hmm, think I'm going to have to ask my prof abou tthis one.

[threnody.livejournal.com]

That about sums it up perfectly. I answered 'knitted' and 'pet', because those are the ones I use most often in the course of daily life, but they all work in some context or other. This is the sort of thing where if you think about it too much none of it makes any sense. :P

I'm just glad I didn't have to learn this messed up language fron scratch in school, I never would have passed. >.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

Of course to me, to pet isn't a verb that I recognise in my native language. I'm only familiar with it through exposure to US media. But it doesn't figure in my own vocabulary. So take that into account I guess.

[conuly]

Then you'd have to go with shrugging, now wouldn't you?

[eofs.livejournal.com]

No, I went with petted because it sounded better. What I should have done is gone for sort of native speaker.

[rachelkachel]

You don't use pet? What do you do with a dog, then?

[conuly]

Pat, perhaps?

[rachelkachel]

Ah, of course.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

No. Well, I mean you could pat a dog. But you would normally stroke them.

[strangelette.livejournal.com]

I voted for knit with knit being the thing one does with yarn. I tend to use 'knitted' when referencing someone's brow. Although now that I think about it, that isn't a phrase I manage to work into conversation much.

[ladytalon.livejournal.com]

I said "knitted," but thinking on it.. I think I use them interchangably. Cause, um, I'm unpredictable like that..?

[rachelkachel]

I would probably say "my sister knitted a scarf" but I'd think it sounded a bit odd. However, the adjective form would be "a knit scarf", most likely.

[conuly]

Which is opposite how I do it :)

[neurotica0.livejournal.com]

I just went with what I would naturally say, without any regard to the "correctness" of it.

[conuly]

Which is what I was looking for.

[this-bugs-4-you.livejournal.com]

does it feel more comfortable to anyone else to say "i was petting"? i fully realize this is technically another tense...but everytime i tried to see what sounded better, pet or petted, "was petting" is what came out.

[conuly]

Yeah, I do that a lot, but I didn't want to add another variable to my incredibly unscientific poll.

[funkyjazzmonkey.livejournal.com]

Hey, you should add a choice for both. Or is that the shrug? Well in any case I shrugged for the first one cause both sounded valid to me(native speaker).

[frogmajick.livejournal.com]

See, it just depends, are you talking past tense or past participle? We had this discussion about words like funner. Grammatically it ought to be more fun, but funner is {grammar term that escapes me}.

[conuly]

*blinks*

I don't know.

Um.

I set the book down every day (present)
I set the book down yesterday (past)

I feed the cat, I fed the cat.

[frogmajick.livejournal.com]

I knit a a scarf for my dog. My grandma knitted a scarf for me to match. She brought it to me and petted my dog. I told her he likes that, I pet him yesterday and he drooled.

My example doesn't really tell you why though. Hmm, think I'm going to have to ask my prof abou tthis one.

[threnody.livejournal.com]

That about sums it up perfectly. I answered 'knitted' and 'pet', because those are the ones I use most often in the course of daily life, but they all work in some context or other. This is the sort of thing where if you think about it too much none of it makes any sense. :P

I'm just glad I didn't have to learn this messed up language fron scratch in school, I never would have passed. >.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

Of course to me, to pet isn't a verb that I recognise in my native language. I'm only familiar with it through exposure to US media. But it doesn't figure in my own vocabulary. So take that into account I guess.

[conuly]

Then you'd have to go with shrugging, now wouldn't you?

[eofs.livejournal.com]

No, I went with petted because it sounded better. What I should have done is gone for sort of native speaker.

[rachelkachel]

You don't use pet? What do you do with a dog, then?

[conuly]

Pat, perhaps?

[rachelkachel]

Ah, of course.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

No. Well, I mean you could pat a dog. But you would normally stroke them.

[strangelette.livejournal.com]

I voted for knit with knit being the thing one does with yarn. I tend to use 'knitted' when referencing someone's brow. Although now that I think about it, that isn't a phrase I manage to work into conversation much.

[ladytalon.livejournal.com]

I said "knitted," but thinking on it.. I think I use them interchangably. Cause, um, I'm unpredictable like that..?

[rachelkachel]

I would probably say "my sister knitted a scarf" but I'd think it sounded a bit odd. However, the adjective form would be "a knit scarf", most likely.

[conuly]

Which is opposite how I do it :)

[neurotica0.livejournal.com]

I just went with what I would naturally say, without any regard to the "correctness" of it.

[conuly]

Which is what I was looking for.

[this-bugs-4-you.livejournal.com]

does it feel more comfortable to anyone else to say "i was petting"? i fully realize this is technically another tense...but everytime i tried to see what sounded better, pet or petted, "was petting" is what came out.

[conuly]

Yeah, I do that a lot, but I didn't want to add another variable to my incredibly unscientific poll.

[funkyjazzmonkey.livejournal.com]

Hey, you should add a choice for both. Or is that the shrug? Well in any case I shrugged for the first one cause both sounded valid to me(native speaker).