Arel

Actually, in this case it'd be Fain telling us to TYPO it.

Raves to everyone who helped put on Eli's new play.

Urazial, Zondervan, Amani and Nori, Nott, Kundu, Athine, Druken, Shiawase, Adala, wonderful costume designer Ried. Not everyone could make the final production, but even having that many at rehearsals was awesome.

Also, you are all awesome for helping me try out a play without any talking, just dancing.

"For the information of the Brits, who have abandoned many strong verbs and simply added the weak endings to the infinitive, not only is "drug" a correct simple past of "drag", but dialectically, the verb: to drug (meaning to drag) actually exists. Consult your OEDs!

That the verb "drag" was in fact (and in some places still is) strong can easily be seen by comparing the German: tragen, TRUG, hat getragen. Now it happens that when English dropped the y- which preceded the past participle for strong verbs (Summer is y-comen in, Loude sing cuckoo!) the simple past form was adoped for the past participle where the dropping of the y- would have caused confusion with the present tense. So, drag, drug, drug (I have drug in three sacks of oats already)

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The other way of making the simple past and the past participle is to add -ed to the verb stem (the infinitive or the first person present tense): walk, walked, walked. These are called "regular" by English grammars, weak by other Germanic grammars.

Over a period of years, many speakers of English (particularly Brits) have abandoned the strong forms for verbs which are not used too often and have substituted weak endings. This has also happened, though to a lesser degree, in the U.S.

But here are some pairs, explained by this same phenomenon:

I dived into the water.
I dove into the water. (Most U.S. speakers would not hesitate to say this, although most, but not all, have substituted the weak past participle for the strong. Where I grew up, however, people did not hesitate to say: After I had diven into the water, I found they had not followed me. Diven is correct. The OE forms are: diwan, daf, ydiwen, in the same Umlaut row as: drive, drove, driven, which, as far as I know, almost all English speakers still say

They have smited them all with hard blows.
They have smitten them all with hard blows.
Both are, of course, correct. The latter, however, is the older English form of the verb: smite, smote, smitten. I believe our British cousins preserve the strong past participle in sentences such as: He was very smitten with her.

Hope this explanation helps. Adopting "regular" (weak) endings is convenient, of course, and is generally not wrong, as long as usage approves it, it does, however, make reading Shakespeare, the King James Version of the Bible, and most authors through the end of the 17th century more difficult."
http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=163227

What are you, some kind of grammar nazi?

Brit hater, mostly because the British have this odd notion that they speak "pure" English, rather than some grotesque butchery of my language. Like a certain toga-sporter who claims that "drug" can't be used in that sense in some odd sense of purity.

Who I'm pretty sure isn't British. (btw I love your avatar.)

I might like Xavius' avatar if the font wasn't so crap at that resolution that I couldn't read it.

(Xavius is just jealous we speak actual English instead of a screwed-up version, don't mind him.)

Faethorn!

Talking with someone on the other side of the line who isn't trying to kill you is nice.

Eventru is Dutch, just like Shiri

Yes, the pegasus can grow an additional set of wings, which would be four wings total, in two sets of two.

Ahem. Anyway, go me, I was right for once.

I'm not dutch! I'm more native american than I am english. And more french than I am german, but more german than I am belgian. Amusingly I'm more irish than native american, and about equally irish as I am austrian. I'm thoroughly a U.S.-er, who believes the Brits are near always right - when it comes to issues of grammar and language, anyways!

Simply because the English language has been butchered by the illiteracy of my country over the past few hundred years does not make it proper! And last time I checked Webster did not recognize drug as a tense of the verb 'to drag', either, so I feel wholly vindicated. However, let's not continue this, since this is Lack of Raves!

Hm. I know someone named Maymay who goes to my school. She's a WoW celebrity (Hafu).
And finally figured out how not to fail the Stewartsville quest.

Lol, Eventru is a mutt
I can't say anything, I'm mostly germanic, with some indian/scottish in me. Related to Rue McClanahan (sp) somehow, the whorish chick from Golden Girls.

is this true? My pegasus has actually has FOUR wings? *squee*

Another rave: Finishing the Hyfae quest and the final showdown with Ukar. So epic, especially since you don't need to be an uber Demigod to do it! =D

Although it took way too long, I finally hit 80 last night. I'll hit 99 by 2015. Maybe.

Yay! Now my columns of enemies are all even length.

Quilis

My columns were even once, then someone had to enemy me to something I never even attacked. You'll get yours.