thorbot@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.world · 10 months agoHow's your anus doing?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up1875arrow-down116
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minus-squarehungprocess@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up60arrow-down4·edit-210 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-squareGeneralEmergency@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up51·10 months agoNah hung is right. Matt just took some penis enlargement pills.
minus-squareQuetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·10 months agoTo (badly) paraphrase Pratchett, “A person is hanged, meat is hung. […] First he was hanged. Then he was hung.”
minus-squareScrollerBall@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24arrow-down2·10 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-up3·10 months agoDepends if you mean ‘he suspended himself from a rope’ or ‘he comitted suicide’
minus-squareQuadhammer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·10 months agoMaybe we should not care how 18th century cowboys pronounced things
minus-squaretegs_terry@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·10 months agoI don’t, I care about the language as it exists today.
minus-squareThe Giant Korean@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·10 months agoDid you hear about the plastic surgeon that hung himself?
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)
Nah hung is right. Matt just took some penis enlargement pills.
To (badly) paraphrase Pratchett, “A person is hanged, meat is hung. […] First he was hanged. Then he was hung.”
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.
Did you hear about the plastic surgeon that hung himself?