Posted on 12/24/2016 7:20:12 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
A Florida teenager has died in a bizarre accident at a closed water park in a resort area in the Wisconsin Dells.
The teen and two other juveniles snuck into the Mt. Olympus Water and Theme Park Wednesday night, according to Lake Delton police. The trio then slipped into a restricted area and climbed to the top of a water slide. While trying to sled down the snow-covered slide, the boy got caught in the snow and tumbled off the ride while trying to free himself, police said.
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We conjugate verbs, but we decline nouns and adjectives.
If we would have had access to a facility like that, we probably would have taken advantage of it too. Probably starting out by packing the shutes down so that it would have accommodated a saucer.........wheeeeee!
You bes right. ((I was just having a little fun))
Stupid games, stupid prizes...””
He got into the 2016 award race with just a few days to spare...
The Darwin Award race.
Of course, that begs the question as to who they are. Their first online appearance per the Wayback Machine is September of 2009, so they look to me like a preliminary run of Commie Core.
With all due respect, I am not sure exactly why you are refuting my source, http://www.the-conjugation.com/english/verb/sneak.php. However, I am not sure I agree with your premise/conclusion.
So first appearance of the website http://www.the-conjugation.com/english/verb/sneak.php is 2009 on Wayback Machine. Hmmm. Just because the website did appear on Wayback prior to 2009, does that mean the site did not not exist in any form prior to that date? I ask because I truly don’t know...
Are you implying that since website was not noted on Wayback Machine prior to 2009, the website is a tool of Common Core? They are somehow subverting English language with the inclusion of “snuck?”
Is Merriam Webster traditional enough for you?
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sneak
According to the video below, “snuck” appeared in the 1800s. Over the past 120 odd years, by some estimations “snuck” has become the more common form in the US...So it seems to have been in use long before Common Core. The video is interesting viewing IMHO.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/video/sneaked-vs-snuck
There are many other websites with similar discussions.
Therefore, again, with all due respect, I conclude that use of “snuck” in title is appropriate.
Floridians and snow usually don’t mix well, it’s foreign to them, the native Floridians at least.
I’m not going to mock, though. There but for the Grace of God I could have gone, oh the stupid things I did sledding. Teens don’t think of death, it’s an awful oddity that on rare occasion happens to somebody else.
LOL now you are dissing Merriam Webster??? Some people just cannot tolerate being challenged...I apologize for even replying.
You have shown me that you are obviously a very erudite poster having inserted a Latin phrase* in your reply; you know far more than Merriam Webster.
*Though I would disagree.
As my millennial who took AP Latin for 2 years would say, “Whatever.”
Returning the due respect...
I remember when I was a child of 12-13 (possibly younger) and living in Texas, 3 boys about my age went missing not far from where we lived.
I did not know them, but they were found A couple of days later in Colorado.
They had been walking somewhere and saw a train moving very slowly.
They made the decision to hop on the train and hop off again a mile later so as to avoid walking, and it seemed like an ok thing to do.
It ends up the train picked up speed and they were never able to “hop off”.
Years later when I was in college,, a fellow that lived next door to me ended up being one of those kids.
He was a great guy and we became good friends.
I used to laugh at that story, as he said they were thirsty, hungry and miserable, and being in shorts when they got to Colorado they were very cold.
The entire story was quite something.
He even described having to use the bathroom on a board and putting the fouled end oh the board out the boxcar doors to “dump it”.
The last I heard he was a civil engineer inspecting bridges, dams and the like.
It's not as if the scientific method offers any answers. In matters of proper use of language, argumentum ad verecundiam is all we have.
I remember of a teen out west who decided to ride a inner tube down the overflow spillway chute of a large dam. He did not make it to the bottom alive.
“Dissing”? No; just your technique for arguing for language debasement.
Do those make for good eatin’?
;)
The structure of modern English has been static for a good two centuries, even in the US form. Abandonment of use of suffixes for past tense in favor of a false irregular verb transformation ought to be within society’s grasp to keep from happening.
Apparently it’s a decent grilling fish.
Se non è vero, è ben trovato.
Not to mention, I absolutely refuse to let the liberal media away with debasing the language, where I can.
Oh, wow! There was a fish!
Growing up in Northern Virginia during the 50s we’d go down into the storm sewers and wonder around. Or take our bikes up on the beltway as it was being built.
We rode minibikes where Springfield Mall used to be.
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