• NegativeInf@lemmy.world
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    Both are fine. Sneaked is traditional.

    “Sneaked” is the traditional past tense and past participle of the verb “sneak”. “Snuck” is a newer, nonstandard past tense of “sneak” that originated in the United States in the early 20th century. However, “snuck” is now widely accepted and appears in many publications

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      10 months ago

      past participle

      Im so glad i was raised in the language so i can just speak without ever needing to learn this shit. My eyes have always glazed over in English class. An adjective that’s also a verb? Gtfo

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        10 months ago

        Yeah, also when English is your first language you are not judged harshly when you make a mistake.

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        The constructed language Lojban doesn’t actually differentiate between adjectives, verbs, nouns and adverbs, because it turns out separating words into categories like that isn’t a useful exercise.

        For example, is “shower” a noun or a verb? What about “bike?”

        Take the word “green.” In English, color words are pretty strictly adjectives. in English, you say a traffic light “turns green.” In Lojban, you would say the light “is greening” or “greens.” Funny how you can also make English do that, huh?

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      Speak Spuck.

      It took me a minute to remember what the actual past tense of “speak” is.