In any context outside of Starcraft, obviously it should be fed back. For the ability, feedbacked.

However I also would say locked down, not lockdowned. So it's not a hard rule for what sounds right but it makes sense to treat these words as verbs in this general context. I'd definitely rather say yamatoed, stormed, not always "used the yamato ability" or "casted psi storm."

Kira__

Sweden2672 Posts

April 15 2012 04:17 GMT

#85

it's clearly fedbuck, makes the most sense

please learn to speak starcraft people

Whitewing

United States7483 Posts

April 15 2012 04:23 GMT

#86

Feedback is a noun, not a verb, it has no past tense, no conjugations.

It should be something like "received feedback" or "suffered feedback" or "that high templar induced feedback!".

0neder

United States3733 Posts

April 15 2012 04:23 GMT

#87

This discussion made me think of a cow vomiting up her food to give to her babies. Gross.

Sableyeah

Netherlands2119 Posts

April 15 2012 04:26 GMT

#88

Fedback yo.

Mordanis

United States893 Posts

April 15 2012 04:29 GMT

#89

On April 15 2012 09:52 Audemed wrote:
If tasteless can "segway" onto the nextgame, those medivacs were sure as hell feedbacked, imo.

LOL
Definition of "Segue"
If you pay close attention, you'll notice that this word is derived from an Italian word. Not from a stupid little cart-thing. This made my day BTW

pi_rate_pir_ate

United States179 Posts

April 15 2012 04:40 GMT

#90

The ghosts get f'ed just before the fight.

Kaniol

Poland5551 Posts

April 15 2012 13:21 GMT

#91

On April 15 2012 04:11 Pantythief wrote:

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So the rules of English language does not apply if Wikipedia says so?

The rules of English are usually explained by dictionaries, wiktionary is one of these and it isn't considered a bad dictionary.

[Agony]x90

United States853 Posts

April 15 2012 13:31 GMT

#92

Let's do the complete opposite of the past tense conventions! Let's add -ed to "feed" and mutate the vowel in "back". Therefore, "feededbeck"! "Man look at the ghost. He got feededbeck."

FuRong

New Zealand3089 Posts

April 15 2012 13:47 GMT

#93

I read about this in Steven Pinker's book The Language Instinct, the basic idea is that when a newly coined word is not based on the original meaning of the words it is made up of, it doesn't carry the same transformations as the original words and is instead treated using the general rules of the language (ie: add "-ed" for past tense)

So for example:

overshoot --> overshot, not overshooted, because overshooting is a kind of shooting so it carries the same properties as shoot

fly out (from baseball) --> flied out, not flew out, because the meaning is different, so the rule fly --> flew doesn't apply

Based on this logic, feedback --> feedbacked, because the word feedback is unrelated to the original meaning of feed

Plague1503

Croatia466 Posts

April 15 2012 14:27 GMT

#94

On April 15 2012 02:40 danl9rm wrote:

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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.

To claim that language should be prescribed rather than described is wrong and (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_prescription) in extreme instances can be dangerous to the freedom of speech

Speakers of a certain language are the only ones who can distinguish what is grammatical from what isn't. Language is a changing entity, constantly evolving and shaping in society and dictionaries don't exist to invent languages but rather document them

At least that is my belief after 3 years of studying linguistics and English, and also ofc there are those who challenge that model as well, it just makes the most sense to me (how it SHOULD be).

Audemed

United States893 Posts

April 15 2012 22:32 GMT

#95

On April 15 2012 13:29 Mordanis wrote:

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LOL
Definition of "Segue"
If you pay close attention, you'll notice that this word is derived from an Italian word. Not from a stupid little cart-thing. This made my day BTW

O.o

You learn something every day.

Well, not really....but those days you do it's cool.

caradoc

Canada3022 Posts

April 15 2012 22:40 GMT

#96

On April 15 2012 13:29 Mordanis wrote:

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LOL
Definition of "Segue"
If you pay close attention, you'll notice that this word is derived from an Italian word. Not from a stupid little cart-thing. This made my day BTW

the cart thing's name was derived from 'segue', it references a spatial dimension to the meaning of the original word.

Thenerf

United States258 Posts

April 15 2012 23:01 GMT

#97

I think we need a new grammar structure because we have a noun(ability) that implies an action(verb). It's a noun/verb.

XeliN

United Kingdom1755 Posts

April 15 2012 23:05 GMT

#98

Fedback instinctually makes sense to me, not that its a word whose usage I would frequent, but feed - present tense, fed - past tense.

feedback, present..... fedback past... seems kinda self explanatory to me but I may be missing something.