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I remember someone asked why the show couldn't be called "Big Sister" (lemmy.nz)

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[+] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works -12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (24 children)

…general education seems to be dead.

…learnt…

Is this intentional irony?

Edit for the down voters:

Learnt and learned are both used as the past participle and past tense of the verb to learn. Learned is the generally accepted way of spelling it in the United States and Canada, while the rest of the English-speaking world seems to prefer learnt for now. Why for now? The American English tendency toward making irregular verbs into regular ones has started influencing British English, which is why the -edvariant is being used increasingly around the world. Soon, learned might be the most common form everywhere.

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We were taught that it was only okay to use T in some words that end in D, for instance build -> built.

[–] DaniNatrix@leminal.space 3 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

As a former ESL professor, I both learnt and taught: learnt, dreamt, was, became, began, taught, blew, meant, brought, thought, caught, drew, felt, fought, lit, grew etc. as part of the (very long) list of irregular English verbs in the past and participle forms.

I'm assuming your insistence is born (not borned) out of embarrassment over your initial mistake. It's ok to not know something, admitting a mistake is a far better look.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works -1 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

What part of me posting the correct answer is insisting? I really don’t understand why everyone needs this to be a gotcha so please fuck off.

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Sure bruv

[–] slackassassin@piefed.social 1 points 15 minutes ago

Pretty sure you mean bröther, bruv.

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