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Off topic/Crap => Trash Can => Topic started by: Quik on February 03, 2005, 09:25:25 PM

Title: Re: Grammar Nazi's ruin thread again
Post by: Quik on February 03, 2005, 09:25:25 PM
Wouldn't it be "snuck"?!

And yeah, if you get onto the network or the computers at your district remotely, then you have talent. But other then that, you're a moron.
Title: Re: Student gets caught logging teachers keystrokes
Post by: iago on February 04, 2005, 09:17:19 AM
"snuck" isn't a word:

iago@Slayer:~$ echo "snuck" | aspell -a
@(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.50.5)
& snuck 15 0: snick, snack, sunk, Zanuck, suck, snug, stuck, sink, sync, snark, sneak, snook, sonic, sank, snicker

Whereas sneaked is:
iago@Slayer:~$ echo "sneaked" | aspell -a
@(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.50.5)
*
Title: Re: Student gets caught logging teachers keystrokes
Post by: wires on February 04, 2005, 03:27:40 PM
I always thought snuck was a word.  Hrm, maybe not in Canada?
Title: Re: Student gets caught logging teachers keystrokes
Post by: iago on February 04, 2005, 05:09:54 PM
Aspell isn't Canadian :P
Title: Re: Student gets caught logging teachers keystrokes
Post by: Quik on February 04, 2005, 05:26:11 PM
Gah, grammar nazi strikes again.
Title: Re: Student gets caught logging teachers keystrokes
Post by: Ergot on February 04, 2005, 07:25:15 PM
Quote from: www.m-w.comMain Entry: snuck
past and past participle of SNEAK

Quote from: dictionary.comsneak   Audio pronunciation of "snuck" ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (snk)
v. sneaked, also snuck (snk) sneakĀ·ing, sneaks
v. intr.

   1. To go or move in a quiet, stealthy way.
   2. To behave in a cowardly or servile manner.


v. tr.

    To move, give, take, or put in a quiet, stealthy manner: sneak candy into one's mouth; sneaked a look at the grade sheet.


n.

   1. A person regarded as stealthy, cowardly, or underhanded.
   2. An instance of sneaking; a quiet, stealthy movement.
   3. Informal. A sneaker.


adj.

   1. Carried out in a clandestine manner: sneak preparations for war.
   2. Perpetrated without warning: a sneak attack.


[Probably akin to Middle English sniken, to creep, from Old English sncan.]

    Usage Note: Snuck is an Americanism first introduced in the 19th century as a nonstandard regional variant of sneaked. Widespread use of snuck has become more common with every generation. It is now used by educated speakers in all regions. Formal written English is more conservative than other varieties, of course, and here snuck still meets with much resistance. Many writers and editors have a lingering unease about the form, particularly if they recall its nonstandard origins. And 67 percent of the Usage Panel disapproved of snuck in our 1988 survey. Nevertheless, an examination of recent sources shows that snuck is sneaking up on sneaked. Snuck was almost 20 percent more common in newspaper articles published in 1995 than it was in 1985. Snuck also appears in the work of many respected columnists and authors: "He ran up huge hotel bills and then snuck out without paying" (George Stade). "He had snuck away from camp with a cabinmate" (Anne Tyler). "I ducked down behind the paperbacks and snuck out" (Garrison Keillor).

Quote from: dict.orgFrom WordNet (r) 2.0 :

  snuck
       See sneak
Title: Re: Student gets caught logging teachers keystrokes
Post by: Mythix on February 04, 2005, 08:54:57 PM
I don't feel this was a grammar nazi issue (love that word). it would be like someone saying "PWNED" or "OMFOGMGOMGOGGOMGOGMG I PWNZ YOU" which I feel is just as bad.

iago wins.
Title: Re: Student gets caught logging teachers keystrokes
Post by: Towelie on February 04, 2005, 09:32:10 PM
wtf throw in trash. This is really OFF TOPIC.