What are you doing right now?

danax6 · #1 02-19-2007, 10:54 PM

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Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

Maybe if you get striken (is that a word?) and banned from here, you can get a new IP address, and come back as Mrs. Bop.

Nobody would suspect a thing.

I was thinking 'struck'?

carrie721 · #2 02-19-2007, 10:54 PM

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Originally Posted by danax6

I was thinking 'struck'?

haha... well, the past participle would be "stricken."

danax6 · #3 02-19-2007, 10:55 PM

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Originally Posted by carrie721

haha... well, the past participle would be "stricken."

Well, I was stricken when I found out I was struck with a strike.

Gosh.

carrie721 · #4 02-19-2007, 10:57 PM

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Originally Posted by danax6

Well, I was stricken when I found out I was struck with a strike.

Gosh.

i think you mean that you were stricken when you were stricken with a strike.

danax6 · #5 02-19-2007, 11:01 PM

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Originally Posted by carrie721

i think you mean that you were stricken when you were stricken with a strike.

Isn't struck and stricken the same?

carrie721 · #6 02-19-2007, 11:04 PM

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Originally Posted by danax6

Isn't struck and stricken the same?

just double-checked myself. "struck" is the simple past form and "stricken" is the past participle, but now "struck" is also acceptable as the past participle form.

in other words ... yeah. but i'm a snob.

HomerMcvie · #7 02-19-2007, 11:05 PM

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Originally Posted by carrie721

just double-checked myself. "struck" is the simple past form and "stricken" is the past participle, but now "struck" is also acceptable as the past participle form.

in other words ... yeah. but i'm a snob.

I thought it was stricken.......too bad I left out a "c". Does this mean that I don't get a gold star?

danax6 · #8 02-19-2007, 11:06 PM

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Originally Posted by carrie721

just double-checked myself. "struck" is the simple past form and "stricken" is the past participle, but now "struck" is also acceptable as the past participle form.

in other words ... yeah. but i'm a snob.

K, cause I double-checked also. I study ****ing English, I should know these things...

Most of the time the past participle of “strike” is “struck.” The exceptions are that you can be stricken with guilt, a misfortune, a wound or a disease; and a passage in a document can be stricken out. The rest of the time, stick with “struck.”