If you are using the word "seen" you are most likely using the wrong word.

[johnnydepth]

Like as in "taught" this word alone is in the past tense even though it is used in the present.
English is such a confusing language when analyzed. LOL!

So you can say I was taught a good lesson today. Or, you will be taught in a manner
you have never experienced before. Both pre and past tense.

So with all that bullshit aside I like to say what nightswhisper posted above is that
we have been "teached" a good lesson for the day. :lol:





.......................QM'r

Urban Dictionary: taught
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=taught
1. To tighten up. 2. A defined body. 3. When your balls are running from North to South

I am curious about the cause of the third definition.

 

[golferjohn]

this thread ain't my seen

 

[Cock Throppled]

You caugt me. I conceed - and I'm embarassed to say - that I accidentaly did it on porpoise. I certainly didn't mean to exasperate the problem. I'll loose the attitude and horde my other examples for later, when their is more time...

I think you need your prostrate checked.

 

[MB Mod]

Now you're just tormenting the masochist in me that knows how this thread will cause ne pain, but I can't stop reading it!!!

A spelling error in a thread about grammar Miss Phoenix? :boink::noidea::jaw:

 

[Ms Erica Phoenix]

I used to believe that speaking properly was imperative. I made it a goal to use proper verb moods, eliminate passive voicing, and speak eloquently.

Then I realized one very important matter - Language is used to disseminate information. The least number of words used to communicate the most amount of information is the most effective.

The English language used to be vastly more complex. However, due to colonisation and the subsequent Anglicisation of various British colonial properties, English began to simplify. It simplified because people from diverse backgrounds and origins needed a common way to communicate. Verb moods and tenses like dative, subjunctive and genetive began to die off. Now, we have a simple language that can be understood and spoken by a third of the world, and that is more important than holding on to arbitrary rules and traditions. Comparatively, Finnish ,Swedish and Norwegian are so frustratingly difficult because they've never really been used widely as colonial languages. Other colonial languages like French, Spanish, and Chinese have all seen simplification.

So, if we start using "Seen" without the present perfect helper "have", and it indicates something that happened in the past (and the person listening to this understands it) then it's one abbreviated word with the same meaning conveyed.

Ooohhh...talk semiotics & semantics to me baby!!

 

[Ms Erica Phoenix]

You see what happens when I post from my phone & my nails get too long??

 

[mylander]

Having grammar beaten into me by my father, figuratively, that is one that is bothersome.

But the one that really gets me, is using "of" instead of "have". "I could of used a hand with that job". I see it so often on FB, it really annoys me, and it takes all of my self control not to call out the offender as a dumbass, lol.

 

[Vpete]

Now you're just tormenting the masochist in me that knows how this thread will cause ne pain, but I can't stop reading it!!!

Sorry not sorry

 

[Ms Erica Phoenix]

Having grammar beaten into me by my father, figuratively, that is one that is bothersome.

But the one that really gets me, is using "of" instead of "have". "I could of used a hand with that job". I see it so often on FB, it really annoys me, and it takes all of my self control not to call out the offender as a dumbass, lol.

**swoon** Mmmm wanna watch Schoolhouse Rock & chill?

 

[Cock Throppled]

Having grammar beaten into me by my father, figuratively, that is one that is bothersome.

But the one that really gets me, is using "of" instead of "have". "I could of used a hand with that job". I see it so often on FB, it really annoys me, and it takes all of my self control not to call out the offender as a dumbass, lol.

I think you mean, "I could have used a hand job. It gets me of."

 

[Roger101]

One of my favourites;
When you say, "I seen," I assume you won't finish that sentence with "the inside of a Library." I see. I saw. I have seen

 

[Ms Erica Phoenix]

You get a gold star!

 

[Claire Monet]

Other irks: when people pronounce "ask" as "aksk"... I honestly can't even say the incorrect word "correctly".

Or "expecially" when they mean especially.

Not as common in this neck of the woods, but "I done".

*shudder*

 

[Ms Erica Phoenix]

Yup. "Expecially" & "irregardless" are like nails on a chalkboard every time.

 

[mylander]

Yup. "Expecially" & "irregardless" are like nails on a chalkboard every time.

Irregardless drives me nuts.

And to the best of my knowledge, they actually added it to the Oxford dictionary because people "misuse" it so much.