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Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept.

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In article <5250e4f01esee.sig@walkingingermany.invalid>,
   Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> wrote:
> In article <5250df9be0riscos@mdharding.org.uk>, M Harding
> <riscos@mdharding.org.uk> wrote:

> > they've even invented  a new version of the past tense of
> > the verb "to broadcast": it's "we broadcasted"

> IMHO that is a difficult one.

> Etymologically you are, of course, correct in that both past
> tense and past participle of 'cast' are 'cast'.

> However, one could make the case that ignoring the etymology
> and treating 'broadcast' as a completely new verb and making
> it a weak verb is fully justified in terms of clarity.

> It *is* without any doubt clearer to write 'we broadcast'
> only in the simple present tense, and 'we broadcasted' or
> 'we have broadcasted' for past and perfect.

> I find that while 'I casted' certainly grates, 'I
> broadcasted' does not.

> FWIW

Oh dear! Then you'd have to allow similar forms such as "he was
typecasted as..." or "the weather was forecasted to be...". Pluto
accepts the latter while beeping at the former; and, ironically, it
accepts 'broadcasted'.

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Dev

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Pluto & BBC complaints dept. M Harding <riscos@mdharding.org.uk> - 2012-01-12 11:30 +0000
  Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept. Alan Calder <alan_calder@o2.co.uk> - 2012-01-12 12:32 +0000
    Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept. Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2012-01-12 18:57 +0000
      Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept. Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-01-13 09:22 +0100
        Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept. Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-01-13 09:46 +0000
  Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept. Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-01-12 16:24 +0000
  Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept. Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2012-01-12 19:02 +0000
    Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept. Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-01-12 19:58 +0000
      Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept. M Harding <riscos@mdharding.org.uk> - 2012-01-13 11:04 +0000
        Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept. Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-01-13 12:03 +0000
          Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept. Dev <spam-addy@no.spam.invalid> - 2012-01-13 14:04 +0000
            Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept. Richard Travers <richtnews@uwclub.net> - 2012-01-16 10:27 +0000
              Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept. Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-01-16 11:36 +0000
        Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept. Ken Wright <kcwright@ormail.co.uk> - 2012-01-14 20:41 +0000
          Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept. Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> - 2012-01-14 21:21 +0000
            Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept. Ken Wright <kcwright@ormail.co.uk> - 2012-01-15 21:03 +0000
          Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept. Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-01-15 11:22 +0000
            Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept. Ken Wright <kcwright@ormail.co.uk> - 2012-01-15 21:21 +0000
              Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept. Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-01-16 07:01 +0100
                Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept. Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-01-16 08:52 +0000
                Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept. Jess <phantasm_39@hotmail.com> - 2012-01-24 11:23 +0000

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