EPTFeedbacked, Fedback, or Fedbacked? - Page 4
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Mvrio
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felisconcolori
United States6168 Posts
*Note: I voted on this just after I lit my cigarette, which was after I fed my cat. Edit: Also... ON TO EDIT WIKIPEDIA! | ||
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MFVain
Denmark9 Posts
Hello Captain Obvious. The idea was to verbalize it, to make it a verb, to make it something that it isn't already so that in our culty and very limited cultural context, we have a word to use, when we do not wish to say "got to be the victim of feedback" or, "received feedback" or any other such float-around description of what happened. Verbalize wasn't a word until recent years, it is now, because the idea of a dictionary or accepting words into entire societies at once with a consensus wasn't possible until the world was globalized in the way it is now. Back then, people weren't at all surprised to meet a language barrier when travelling from one part of a country to another, or to read a text full of words they never knew before. Today we have dictionaries to help us avoid misunderstandings and mending language barriers, but fact is, in our nice little sub-culture of the gaming culture, we have an ill-defined thing. Feedbacking. By High Templars. Time to define it, I'd say. I'd fully appreciate anyone arguing against me, but if you're about to wave your secondary education about and state that feedback isn't a verb, please don't. It's embarassing for everyone, including you, whether you realize it or not. | ||
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supereddie
Netherlands151 Posts
On April 15 2012 04:42 DarkPlasmaBall wrote: 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. While it may seem unnatural, it is actually valid (well, I am not a native english speaker, so what do I know?). Compare it to: skateboard -> skateboarding (I am skateboarding tomorrow; I skateboarded yesterday) backpack -> backpacking (I am backpacking next year; I backpacked last year) feedback -> feedbacking (I am feedbacking that medivac; I feedbacked that medivac) | ||
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Demonhunter04
1530 Posts
If the unit dies, it's even simpler: "...ghost dying to feedback..." | ||
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Atlas247
Canada318 Posts
Also I go with Feedbacked...ah my brain | ||
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MountainDewJunkie
United States10342 Posts
It's a noun. The problem is that the english language hasn't "evolved" or "changed," it's just that everyone slowly accepts the misnomers, mispronunciations, misspellings, and cutesy new words like "googled." | ||
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caradoc
Canada3022 Posts
On April 15 2012 03:41 DarkPlasmaBall wrote: 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. feedback is a noun ('feedback costs 50 energy'), then it undergoes a zero derivation category change to be a verb, ('he's going to feedback those medivacs'), then that verb takes -ed inflection as a past tense, feedbacked. In the 'feedback' verb, 'feed' is not the verb, the entire word 'feedback' is. In order for it to be 'fedback', the word 'feed' in 'feedback' would need to be a verb, but that is pretty counterintuitive, since 'feedback' as we use it in sc2 isn't derived from the meaning of 'feed' + 'back', it's semantically its own entity, and although we can see that its partly derived from the words feed and back, it carries a lot of its own semantic meaning that's unique to 'feedback' as a unit. Of course as others point out, this is just more consistent, there isn't a right or wrong really, it's how people talk. | ||
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MichaelDonovan
United States1453 Posts
Edit: The post above me explains this in more detail. I am lazy today. | ||
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TheAmazombie
United States3714 Posts
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xtruder
Afghanistan135 Posts
We used it as a noun. We nouned it. See how awkward and stupid the 2nd sentence is? | ||
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frogrubdown
1266 Posts
On April 15 2012 06:30 MichaelDonovan wrote: Well regardless of English grammar rules, in game, "feedback" is a noun only. There is no verb form of it in game. Thus, it must be treated as a noun. Edit: The post above me explains this in more detail. I am lazy today. The post above you came to the exact opposite conclusion. I thought prescriptivism was dead, but it's sadly thriving here at TL. | ||
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Trotim
Germany95 Posts
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sorrowptoss
Canada1431 Posts
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Mordanis
United States893 Posts
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Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
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TBO
Germany1350 Posts
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v3chr0
United States856 Posts
Feedbacked looks and sounds the most appropriate, since we're making up a word it's probably best to have it be self explanatory/tag on an adverb. | ||
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MFVain
Denmark9 Posts
We need to get some facts straight: Feedback is derived from having something fed back, i.e. getting comments in turn for your paper from your teacher, or receiving sound from an amplifier system from sound (or indeed as it is, just waves) already inputted. Yes, inputted is a word. I.E., using feedback on someone means that that certain someone, is being fed back. This is what I stated in my argumentation over voting fedback myself. Verbalized and nouned is also both words (I assure you), and neither are groundbreaking and/or violating of the english language. Shakespeare verbalized countless nouns to clarify what he meant in a certain context. This is what's happening again. With feedback. In Starcraft. EDIT: Changed "verbs" to "nouns" in the last paragraph. Mistake on my part. | ||
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Audemed
United States893 Posts
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