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On April 15 2012 02:40 danl9rm wrote:Show nested quote +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.
Sorry, but this is just wildly inaccurate. Language did not evolve and gain "coherence" by having a bunch of pedants enforce arbitrary rules. It has always moved with popular forces and been far more useful for having done so. English is great at verbing nouns. You only decrease its utility by placing a pointless restriction on that.
As for the question at hand, Befree is right about typical English compound morphology. Just as a group of Sabertooth tigers is a group of Sabertooths (not Saberteeth), one would expect 'feedback' to inflect independently of 'feed'.
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Bagpack is (was) a noun too. English turns nouns into verbs and verbs into nouns.
However I'm thinking that the past tense of feedback should be similar to other phrasal verbs and it should be fedback (eg bring back, pack up, keep up)
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On April 15 2012 02:52 JieXian wrote:
Bagpack is (was) a noun too. English turns nouns into verbs and verbs into nouns.
However I'm thinking that the past tense of feedback should be similar to other phrasal verbs and it should be fedback (eg bring back, pack up, keep up)
You're thinking of "bagpack" as in "bagpacking", that's a concept. Hypothetically speaking "bagpacking" has nothing to do with the word "bagpack"
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On April 15 2012 03:00 Pantythief wrote:Show nested quote +On April 15 2012 02:52 JieXian wrote:
Bagpack is (was) a noun too. English turns nouns into verbs and verbs into nouns.
However I'm thinking that the past tense of feedback should be similar to other phrasal verbs and it should be fedback (eg bring back, pack up, keep up) You're thinking of "bagpack" as in "bagpacking", that's a concept. Hypothetically speaking "bagpacking" has nothing to do with the word "bagpack"
I think he means "backpack."
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Going strong with fedbacked!
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I think feedbacked is most correct, but fedback sounds the coolest :D
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Yeah, except, "feedback" is the word to use, not "feedbacked." 
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On April 15 2012 00:21 caradoc wrote:
LOGICAL: mail -> email -> (emailed)
ILLOGICAL: mail -> mailed -> e-(mailed)
therefore feedback-ed.
You realize mail is both a noun and a verb, right? I have mail. I mailed him a letter.
Feedback is only a noun. As in: "Read my essay and give me feedback, please."
The response is: "Okay, I gave you feedback."
You can tell your teacher: "I talked to a friend and used his feedback to help adjust the aim of my essay."
"The high templar used feedback." Done.
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On April 14 2012 23:56 Iyerbeth wrote:
Why not just say "and the medivacs were hit with a feedback" or "The feedback use in that last fight destroyed the Banshees"? I can't think of a situation where I'd naturally say "The Hight templar were feedbacked" for instance. Just sounds wrong.
Yup. Really there should be no use for any of these "new" forms of the word feedback, there's a plethora of ways to get around it.
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On April 15 2012 03:41 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:Show nested quote +On April 15 2012 00:21 caradoc wrote:
LOGICAL: mail -> email -> (emailed)
ILLOGICAL: mail -> mailed -> e-(mailed)
therefore feedback-ed. You realize mail is both a noun and a verb, right? I have mail. I mailed him a letter. Feedback is only a noun. As in: "Read my essay and give me feedback, please." The response is: "Okay, I gave you feedback." You can tell your teacher: "I talked to a friend and used his feedback to help adjust the aim of my essay." "The high templar used feedback." Done.
Except that's not the sense of the word 'feedback' that the spell is. The spell is talking about when you put your microphone too close to the speaker, or more generally "the return of a portion of the output of a process or system to the input". This doesn't change the fact that it is still only a noun in common english, but there's no reason we shouldn't use it as a verb if our community of language users decides that that is the most natural thing to do.
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This settles it.
Was a clear case anyway though.
Fedbacked is just retarded.
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On April 15 2012 03:57 Blennd wrote:Show nested quote +On April 15 2012 03:41 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:On April 15 2012 00:21 caradoc wrote:
LOGICAL: mail -> email -> (emailed)
ILLOGICAL: mail -> mailed -> e-(mailed)
therefore feedback-ed. You realize mail is both a noun and a verb, right? I have mail. I mailed him a letter. Feedback is only a noun. As in: "Read my essay and give me feedback, please." The response is: "Okay, I gave you feedback." You can tell your teacher: "I talked to a friend and used his feedback to help adjust the aim of my essay." "The high templar used feedback." Done. Except that's not the sense of the word 'feedback' that the spell is. The spell is talking about when you put your microphone too close to the speaker, or more generally "the return of a portion of the output of a process or system to the input". This doesn't change the fact that it is still only a noun in common english, but there's no reason we shouldn't use it as a verb if our community of language users decides that that is the most natural thing to do.
I know, which is why- from an English perspective- I'm of the position that it should only be used as a noun, (i.e. "Look at those Feedbacks!"), although I'm not going to go write a death note to the caster if he says Feedbacked or something else (let's face it- we've heard much worse mispronunciations of words that even currently exist inside of the game).
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On April 15 2012 04:01 Redox wrote:This settles it. Was a clear case anyway though. Fedbacked is just retarded.
So the rules of English language does not apply if Wikipedia says so?
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I only use feedback as a noun i.e. the medivac was hit with feedback
he used feedback on the medivac
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You can create a verb of any noun, so that is a non-issue. Therefore, the correct usage is "feedbacked" as others have explained.
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On April 15 2012 04:31 supereddie wrote:
You can create a verb of any noun, so that is a non-issue. Therefore, the correct usage is "feedbacked" as others have explained.
Well I suppose you could create an adjective or a verb or any other part of speech out of a noun, but that hypothetical nonsense doesn't make it an established word lol.
Dude, you're so feedbacky today.
My brothers' names are Andrew, Bob, feedback Charlie.
What.
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"got hit by Feedback" is sorta good. Just think of it as "got hit by a electricity" or something.
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