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I remember someone asked why the show couldn't be called "Big Sister" (lemmy.world)
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[–] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (14 children)

no, that was unintentional. But if you really like my mistakes as a non-native speaker you can print them out, stick them to the bedroom wall and masturbate to them to fuel your superiority; i aim to please.

Edit: I looked it up, it's correct. You can still use it as a masturbatory template if you wish so.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/learnt -> past tense and past participle of learn in american english.

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  • [+] -12 points 3 months ago (13 children)

    Learned is more commonly used than learnt.

    From your own link…

    But I guess reading would get in the way of being a pervert.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    "Less common" is not the same as "wrong", and it's doubly not the same as "wrong" when it actually just means "normal in other dialects of the language"

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  • [+] -10 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    Ain’t is in the dictionary, it’s still considered incorrect.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    It's considered informal, and in some dialects (mine included) unusual. The Grammarly link you edited into your first comment doesn't even support a classification of "learnt" as informal, it literally just describes it as a dialect difference. You're doing the same thing as telling a Brit that they're spelling the word incorrectly if they write "colour"

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  • [+] -9 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    I think you are confusing informal and irregular in this case.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    I'm not, but "irregular" does not mean "wrong" either. Heaps of English words have irregular forms. "Built" is one of them.

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  • [+] -7 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Yes which is why we say that and not builded. I’m not sure what your point is.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I think I've been quite clear in repeatedly saying that "learnt" was not wrong to use in the context that it was used in there. You've so far ignored that:

    • The Grammarly source that you linked yourself does not say that "learnt" is wrong

    • The dictionary.com page that the other person linked does not say that "learnt" is wrong

    • A word being the less common form doesn't mean it's wrong

    • A word being informal doesn't mean it's wrong

    • A word being irregular doesn't mean it's wrong

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  • [+] -7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I haven’t ignored anything but if you are going to be an asshole then I am going to ignore you.

    Please look at the link again and pay attention to the difference in regional dialects. I would have been happy to learn that it was accepted in other places but instead I’ve been told to masturbate, and had two other people be a fucking asshole to me. Only one person has been simply informative and I looked it up further. Until you can emulate them kindly fuck off.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Please look at the link again and pay attention to the difference in regional dialects.

    Absolutely baffling response. Your link specifically says that "learnt" is valid in some dialects. You quoted one of the times that it says that. I've said it. At least two other people have said it to you as well. Either you haven't read it or you are suffering from a crushing case of US-defaultism.

    People, including me, have been rude to you because you started the conversation off by being rude and have continued being rude throughout the thread. The first comment you made was an attempt to mock someone for their spelling, which would be rude even if it was actually incorrect. Your replies to me have primarily been refusals to actually engage with anything I've said and, apparently, an equal refusal to properly read your own source.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    "More commonly used" doesn't mean that the other is incorrect, as your comment implies. Also, it's only more common in the US, and we can't tell where the person is from by his initial comment.

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