I'm Headed for a Poo

Fade wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Fade wrote:

Sandy wrote:

Fade wrote:But "is" is present tense and "headed" is past tense.

They're not interchangeable. You don't say "Dave is drived to the pub"

I know language changes, I'm not one of those weird purists, but this particular thing just doesn't make any sense to me.

If people just used it in casual conversation I wouldn't be too bothered, it's the fact it gets used in journalism all the time

'Having a heading or course' is present tense, so saying 'is headed' is fine according to this definition.

That's a definition from an American website though

Does that page not lost it as the past tense of heading at all?

Is Cambridge good enough?

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictio ... ish/headed

I officially strawberry floating hate English

Fade is walked towards a bridge so he can jump off of it.

*jumped

Yubel wrote:My personal pet peeve these days is "tho". strawberry floating stop.

It can be difficult to do that tho, especially when texting.

Knoyleo wrote:

Fade wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Fade wrote:

Sandy wrote:

Fade wrote:But "is" is present tense and "headed" is past tense.

They're not interchangeable. You don't say "Dave is drived to the pub"

I know language changes, I'm not one of those weird purists, but this particular thing just doesn't make any sense to me.

If people just used it in casual conversation I wouldn't be too bothered, it's the fact it gets used in journalism all the time

'Having a heading or course' is present tense, so saying 'is headed' is fine according to this definition.

That's a definition from an American website though

Does that page not lost it as the past tense of heading at all?

Is Cambridge good enough?

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictio ... ish/headed

I officially strawberry floating hate English

Fade is walked towards a bridge so he can jump off of it.

*jumped

No because I was using walked in the current tense you see.

Makes perfect sense

OrangeRKN wrote:I headed to tescos to shop some legos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRpsRKu ... u.be&t=135

Yubel wrote:My personal pet peeve these days is "tho". strawberry floating stop.

It's quicker

s'qwkr

It's funny how the proving ground of late 90's text limits created all these shortcuts and abbreviations, most of which died as soon as character limits were lifted, and some stuck around to become part of common chat.

Like, no one still uses '2' to mean 'to' or 'too' (I think it still has some limited application in place of 'two'), but 'u' and 'tho' have stuck around in a lot of places.

Twitter picked up the baton of limited character language abuse which is why a lot of it has stuck around.

Skarjo wrote:It's funny how the proving ground of late 90's text limits created all these shortcuts and abbreviations, most of which died as soon as character limits were lifted, and some stuck around to become part of common chat.

Like, no one still uses '2' to mean 'to' or 'too'

It peaked with 2 Fast 2 Furious, there is just not point trying to live up to that anymore

I don't feel like I often get annoyed by how anyone else speaks or writes. It can be a bit tiring if someone's writing requires a lot of effort to decode, like extreme txtspk (or just being very bad at spelling) sometimes does. But Americanisms, common abbreviations, slang, and accents don't really bother me.

Karl_ wrote:accents don't really bother me.

Even scouse?

Sandy wrote:

Karl_ wrote:accents don't really bother me.

Even scouse?

The exception that proves the rule.

Karl_ wrote:I don't feel like I often get annoyed by how anyone else speaks or writes. It can be a bit tiring if someone's writing requires a lot of effort to decode, like extreme txtspk (or just being very bad at spelling) sometimes does. But Americanisms, common abbreviations, slang, and accents don't really bother me.