On April 14 2012 23:58 Warpath wrote:
Took feedback(s)
Recieved feedback(s)
Hit by Feedback

Why are we trying to innovate the english language? :S

^ or "used feedback on".

Rassy

Netherlands2308 Posts

April 14 2012 15:03 GMT

#22

procyonlotor Italy. April 14 2012 23:56. Posts 378

Hmm i do like this explanation and i now want to change to fedback also lol.

Zealotdriver

United States1557 Posts

April 14 2012 15:04 GMT

#23

Feedback is not a verb, it is a noun. Source.

For example, the high templar cast feedback on the ghost.

ninjafetus

United States231 Posts

April 14 2012 15:04 GMT

#24

Oh come on you grammar pedants, even Shakespeare loved verbing nouns. There's no harm in verbing feedback! (as long as the past tense isn't "fedbacked" :p)

Latvia791 Posts

April 14 2012 15:17 GMT

#25

Learned English by myself (don't know the language rules really, learned from precedents) and I don't see how it can have past tense. Why even bother about such things if you can always incorporate it in a sentence where it can be used without awkward and most likely incorrect past tense.

Ophiophilius

Canada42 Posts

April 14 2012 15:17 GMT

#26

I have a feeling that considering the nature of the verb "to feedback" (being two words fused together) it would be said "Backfed".
Does this make any sense to anyone else?

caradoc

Canada3022 Posts

April 14 2012 15:21 GMT

#27

LOGICAL: mail -> email -> (emailed)

ILLOGICAL: mail -> mailed -> e-(mailed)

therefore feedback-ed.

MerdaPura

Brazil148 Posts

April 14 2012 15:35 GMT

#28

During a cast, the ones I hear the most are feedbacked and fedback, Im not much into grammar but I can sey that on the context were talkign about, feedback is a verb, the action to feedback an unit. Now, to the proper past tense, I have no dawn clue fo what it is.

Holy_AT

Austria978 Posts

April 14 2012 15:40 GMT

#29

fed sounds so bah it reminds me on "fed up" and thats not flashy.
Feedback has a nice ring to it I think, but I have no clue what is correct english in this way.

HotShizz

France710 Posts

April 14 2012 15:41 GMT

#30

On April 15 2012 00:21 caradoc wrote:
LOGICAL: mail -> email -> (emailed)

ILLOGICAL: mail -> mailed -> e-(mailed)

therefore feedback-ed.

??? I don't think I understand it is supposed to be e-mail, but modern usage has made it email. The original idea was electronic-mail so now we use it as a verb as in to e-mail. to mail is still the verb so it is mail in e-mail that gets the ed. If we were to say it as it were originally meant, to go from a noun to a verb e (electronic) would need to be changed from an adjective (electronic) to and adverb (electronically) so, I electronically mailed it to you, or still e-mailed. So it still makes sense but not just because they threw ed on the end but because the ed makes the verb (to mail) past tense. As in the case of feedback, if ever that were to become a verb, to feed is the verb, so that would be what ought to be changed into the past tense (fed). But maybe I misunderstand completely what you are trying to say in which case, ignore me =^P

nettleberry

United States201 Posts

April 14 2012 16:02 GMT

#31

Well, for the sake of brevity (and comic relief) I think we should just go with "fed" or "backed".

Although I think feedbacked would probably be most correct. It's consistant with the other spells. We say stormed, sniped and fungaled, so why not feedbacked? It doesn't have such a nice ring to it though.

Also, for fun:
feedback conjugaiton

Craton

United States17254 Posts

April 14 2012 16:06 GMT

#32

As my former roommate (English major) often says when I ask him a question like this: reword the sentence so it's not an issue.

Befree

695 Posts

April 14 2012 16:28 GMT

#33

If we follow the morphological rules of 99.99% of English compounds, it is feedbacked. When you compound a word, you then ignore the inner structure of the word. It's a new word and you inflect it independently.

[feed] + [back] -> [feedback] -> [feedback]-ed

There's really no right or wrong with something like this, but feedbacked is by far more consistent with the rest of English's morphological rules.

Pantythief

Denmark657 Posts

April 14 2012 16:36 GMT

#34

Feedback is a noun, not a verb. Therefore, no past tense i.e., none of the above.

TALegion

United States1187 Posts

April 14 2012 16:48 GMT

#35

I think it can be a noun or verd (or, at least, it works as both).
"I use Feedback," or, "I will Feedback you." I voted, "Fedback," because it just kinda sounds correct to me.

liberal

1116 Posts

April 14 2012 16:58 GMT

#36

Feedback is a spell, it's an action that's taken. Why is everyone calling it a noun?

Feed is a verb too right?

UmiNotsuki

United States633 Posts

April 14 2012 17:03 GMT

#37

I like "Feedbacked," because we're verbing the noun "Feedback" and then setting it to past tense. This is also why I prefer Feedbacking to Feedingback.

I like the idea of coining our own phrase for it, because frankly e-Sports language is still far too easy for a casual observer to understand and I'm a hipster. (Sarcasm, please don't think I'm trying to make SC2 less-accessible.)

Blasterion

China10272 Posts

April 14 2012 17:06 GMT

#38

On April 15 2012 01:58 liberal wrote:
Feedback is a spell, it's an action that's taken. Why is everyone calling it a noun?

Feed is a verb too right?

He lightning bolted the guy to the face.
That would be correct as well right? Since Lightning Bolt is a spell.

Pantythief

Denmark657 Posts

April 14 2012 17:27 GMT

#39

On April 15 2012 01:48 TALegion wrote:
I think it can be a noun or verd (or, at least, it works as both).
"I use Feedback," or, "I will Feedback you." I voted, "Fedback," because it just kinda sounds correct to me.

Doesn't really matter if it sounds right, it's wrong. It's a noun, not a verb, no matter what people say.

danl9rm

United States3111 Posts

April 14 2012 17:40 GMT

#40

On April 15 2012 00:00 Plague1503 wrote:
Whatever native speakers use the most, because they are the primary force behind creating and shaping a language.

I appreciate the vote of confidence, but your post is the most wrong (to me) out of everyone's. There are a few of us that know english (thanks), but most of us are terrible at it. Leave it to the people that know what's up, please. If you put the fate of the english language to a typical american (blizz is in u.s., that's why I chose it), it would lose all coherence in a couple generations.

As pretty much everyone has mentioned already, and funnily enough, the guy from China has been speaking the most accurately, "Feedback" is a noun.

However, since that word is just made up anyway, if we wanted to turn it into a verb as well and use it in past tense, "Fedback" is the most logical to me. You'd really have to ask Blizzard what language of origin they were thinking when they were coining it. It could go either way.