thorbot@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.world · 9 months agoHow's your anus doing?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
arrow-up12arrow-down1imageHow's your anus doing?lemmy.worldthorbot@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.world · 9 months agomessage-square5fedilink
minus-squarehungprocess@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-29 months agoBecause I’m that guy: “hanged” (disclaimer: language is a fluid construct, talk however you want, there’s no one “right” way to speak, some of us just enjoy being pedantic assholes)
minus-squareScrollerBall@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·9 months agoBecause I’m also that guy: both are correct. It’s true that you should only used hanged to refer to hanging a person, but it’s not incorrect to use hung in that case. Source 1: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/hung-or-hanged Source 2: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cdExsAQuCQA
minus-squaretegs_terry@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·9 months agoDepends if you mean ‘he suspended himself from a rope’ or ‘he comitted suicide’
minus-squareQuadhammer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 months agoMaybe we should not care how 18th century cowboys pronounced things
minus-squaretegs_terry@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·9 months agoI don’t, I care about the language as it exists today.
Because I’m that guy: “hanged”
(disclaimer: language is a fluid construct, talk however you want, there’s no one “right” way to speak, some of us just enjoy being pedantic assholes)
Because I’m also that guy: both are correct.
It’s true that you should only used hanged to refer to hanging a person, but it’s not incorrect to use hung in that case.
Source 1: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/hung-or-hanged
Source 2: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cdExsAQuCQA
Depends if you mean ‘he suspended himself from a rope’ or ‘he comitted suicide’
Maybe we should not care how 18th century cowboys pronounced things
I don’t, I care about the language as it exists today.