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Dec 31, 2008 11:06AM
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Hung the blinds. Hanged is for people only, I think.
Huh. Dictionary.com seems to indicate either works. Does that seem right to you?http://dictionary.reference.com/brows...
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It looks like it agrees with me about "hanged":"especially for 4, 5, 20, 24, hanged"
4. to put to death by suspending by the neck from a gallows, gibbet, yardarm, or the like.
5. to suspend (oneself) by the neck until dead: He hanged himself from a beam in the attic.
20. (used in mild curses and emphatic expressions, often as a euphemism for damn): I'll be hanged if I do. Hang it all!
24. to be suspended by the neck, as from a gallows, and suffer death in this way.
But doesn't it also support "hanged the blinds"?1. to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
edit: Same with 7 and 9...
7. to furnish or decorate with something suspended: to hang a room with pictures.
9. to fasten or attach (wallpaper, pictures, etc.) to a wall: to hang pictures in a room.
But "hung" seems to work, too, as a past tense of "hang".
See what you started, Sally?:)
verb, hung or, especially for 4, 5, 20, 24, hanged; hang-ing; noun See, it looks like hung is preferred for everything except 4, 5, 20, and 24, RA. So for blinds, hung. For people, hanged.
Hm. Interesting. So it's "preferred" as hung. Thanks, librarian.Grammar is weird.
I found this on a writing website.The regular past tense of hang is hung, which would be used in all the examples listed above. However, there is one difference when it comes to hanging someone by the neck. In this case the past tense is hanged which means killed by hanging.
I hate it when Jackie's right!
When I was in second grade, I checked out a book I thought was titled, Gramma Is Fun!Boy, was I confused when there wasn't a single grandmother in the whole book, just a bunch of nouns, verbs, and adjectives. It turns out the title really was Grammar Is Fun!.
I always have to go back to Grammar Girl for "affect vs. effect." As many times as I've read it, I still have to check back before I write it.
I'm looking an awful lot like Grammar Girl today. I'm rocking a ponytail, and our specs are very similar...
Jackie! You ARE a Grammar Girl! That's perfect for you!
I bet he looks really cute in his ponytail, too!
I just finished watching "Smart People" with Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, Ellen Paige, etc. The movie was quite good, better than I expected. It's easy to forget that Mr. Quaid is a good actor, but he was excellent, and Ms. Parker surprised me with a decent job as well.
This pertains to the "hanged" discussion above. I just read an article about a lady named Anne Green who was convicted of murdering her baby in the 17th century (the baby was actually stillborn). She was hanged and left suspended for at least for a half hour. The helpful spectators twisted her nipples and hung from her legs. Her body was then taken down and placed in coffin that was delivered to an anatomist for dissection. When the anatomists were about to begin a lesson with her body, they noticed that she took a breath. They then revived her and she returned to normal over a few days and eventually married and had several more children. She was granted a reprieve after her miraculous resurrection.
They sure screwed up that hanging, Cyril. Anyhow, a good hangman will kill his clients by breaking their necks with the force of the drop, NOT by strangulation.
She was pushed off a ladder, so I guess ... hell I don't know.
Mindy wrote: "I always have to go back to Grammar Girl for "affect vs. effect." As many times as I've read it, I still have to check back before I write it."Affect is a verb. Effect is a noun.
No, you're backward.
I feel affection for the way everyone loves to talk about grammar in this group. This looks like a question for Grammar Girl:
It's actually pretty straightforward. The majority of the time you use affect with an a as a verb and effect with an e as a noun.
But not always:
So what about those rare meanings that don't follow the rules I just gave you? Well, affect can be used as a noun when you're talking about psychology--it means the mood that someone appears to have. For example, "She displayed a happy affect." Psychologists find it useful because they know that you can never really understand what someone else is feeling. You can only know how they appear to be feeling.
And, effect can be used as a verb that essentially means "to bring about," or "to accomplish." For example, you could say, "Aardvark hoped to effect change within the burrow."
http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/...
So, in summation, nothing is true and everything is permitted?
What? You need a permit for everything?
On this website, most definitely. People around here can't wait to jump in and tell you when you've screwed up.
Yeah, I know the general rule about affect as verb and effect as noun, but it's always the verb part that I have to check myself on. Do I mean "to influence" or "to bring about," which feels very much like "to cause" in my mind, which feels very much like "to influence," so I end up arguing with myself about that and having to go back and check to make sure. (And it's almost always "effect," but I can never do it without checking. I think it's just become habit.)
I just finished watching
Howl's Moving Castle
. Visually gorgeous doesn't even begin to describe it. That castle itself was just a remarkable creation. And the battleships and airships. They had this demented logic.
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I love Howls Moving Castle, Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away--I can't remember they name of the guy who did them--but he is amazing!
Hayao Miyazaki. This was the first film of his I've seen, but I want to see more.
Just saw The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. 'Twas sweet. Gawd, Cate Blanchett is just a stunning woman.
I just watched Tropic Thunder and it was stupid fun. I was surprised at how much I liked Tom Cruise's performance as the producer fat cat. Extremely convincing!
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I was surprised at how much I liked that whole movie.
I recognized Tom by his voice, and then his nose confirmed it was really him.
Yes, I liked Tropic Thunder, although I never quite finished it....my wife was mad because she wanted me to tell her what happened. I had to check Wikipedia.:)I tried to watch "The Savages" yesterday but it was too depressing.
The Savages ends on a better note than it starts, RA, if you ever want to go back to it. Everyone is stuck in unhealthy ruts at the start of the movie, and dealing with the dad with Alzheimer's makes them reevaluate their lives.
See Spirited Away, Dave. It's the best. I loved Howls, too.
And My Neighbor Totoro, too, Dave.
Thanks Sarah and Jackie. I had put Princess Mononoke in my queue, but now I'll add those two first.
Look!!!!:http://www.lettherightoneinmovie.com/
And it's gonna be playing here in Mobile next week! I'm so happy we have an indie theatre now, I'm 'bout to cry!
Ooooh! I really want to see that one, Mindy. It won't get to Oly until the last week of the month, though.
I want to see Doubt, Milk, Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, Defiance, Miracle at Santa Ann's. And everything by Hayao Miyazaki!
Leslie, I want to see YOU! You need an avatar, my dear.
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Ok--I have no idea how to do that, but my daughter does. We can make that one of our projects this weekend! Sounds like fun!
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Here's what I thought: wowza, Clint.
He's really doing whatever he pleases in his advanced age. Good movie, but it sure was the Clint Eastwood show. Even featured his son! It was good, though. I cried, a lot.
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