There's been reached a consensus I do believe, on TeamLiquid forums. I've also posted on my own clan, sort of community's, Mixed Fruit, forums and gotten likewise results. If you'd care to post it on your own community forums please do and make it known if your results differ.

The thing I do see missing is the official SC2 forums, both NA and EU and so on, but I have not been able to make a poll there and I myself obviously only have access to European battle.net sites. Perhaps someone knows a nice solution?

Otherwise, it's feedbacked for me from now on, and I do hope you all will accept it as the "real" term.

Crownlol

United States3726 Posts

April 17 2012 15:47 GMT

#102

Fedback makes the most sense, using the "feed" part of the word as the verb.

Fishgle

United States2174 Posts

April 17 2012 16:19 GMT

#103

Medivac: I'm not so sure about my driving skills, do you think you could help me, Mr. HT?
High Templar: Sure! I think you shouldn't drive near turrets, as those pose great danger to yourself and passengers.
Medivac: Thank you for giving me that marvelous feedback, HT!

Gave feedback. Received feedback.

In the end it doesn't matter because we use millions of terms incorrectly anyway. Stormed(should be create a psionic storm, or has been hit by said storm), EMP'd (Electro-magnetic Pulse, was hit by a "" "") , Yamato'd ( >_>), Seeker'ed (yea, it's gettin worse), Dropped (should be dropped troops upon ), etc etc etc

Thing is, all of this is jargon. Sure, we could argue about whether "Stim" is supposed to mean "a small amount" or "A stimulant" (or, if blizz is genius, both). But in the end it doesn't matter because in Starcraft the word means -10hp +10AtkSpeed. And if it helps us to create a jargon which facilitates the transfer of information, to ease discussion of Starcraft and simplify it as well, then it has served its purpose.

If you are a sound technician or an electrical engineer, go ahead, say "The High Templar created a feedback loop within the electrical circuits within the medivac, thereby damaging it and draining it of usable energy." The rest of us will continue saying, "The Medivac got fedback energy" and be content. Cuz neither one, makes any fuckin sense and, it don't matter to be correct,

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If we're making feedback a verb, the correct term is fedback, btw

Pantythief

Denmark657 Posts

April 17 2012 16:26 GMT

#104

On April 18 2012 00:45 MFVain wrote:
There's been reached a consensus I do believe, on TeamLiquid forums. I've also posted on my own clan, sort of community's, Mixed Fruit, forums and gotten likewise results. If you'd care to post it on your own community forums please do and make it known if your results differ.

The thing I do see missing is the official SC2 forums, both NA and EU and so on, but I have not been able to make a poll there and I myself obviously only have access to European battle.net sites. Perhaps someone knows a nice solution?

Otherwise, it's feedbacked for me from now on, and I do hope you all will accept it as the "real" term.

It's not the real term, though. The real term is "feedback." This is English.

Plague1503

Croatia466 Posts

April 18 2012 10:35 GMT

#105

If enough people start using it, even in a certain community, it will become a "real term". How can you define a "real term"? The one which is in the dictionary or the one that most people are actually using?

Kinda like I would say Colossi is being used indiscriminately for both the singular and the plural form, even though it's "incorrect" to use it for singular (within the casting/SC2 community ofc, not the mainstream). Language is both arbitrary and conventional.

VoirDire

Sweden1923 Posts

April 18 2012 10:49 GMT

#106

It should be "feedbacked" imho. Why make it an irregular verb?

"Fedbacked" is retarded.

VoirDire

Sweden1923 Posts

April 18 2012 11:12 GMT

#107

If you think a word is what's defined in a dictionary you've got it backwards. Words are what's spoken in an everyday context.

Dictionaries only categorizes words in the same sense that a map only contains geographical information. To say that "feedbacked" isn't a proper word because it isn't defined in a dictionary is like saying that a particular forest trail doesn't exist because you can't find it on a map.

CaptainCrush

United States785 Posts

April 18 2012 11:21 GMT

#108

I personally like fedbacked, and I could really care less what its supposed to be! Especially if we have other stupid terms like "manner". You can be well mannered or poorly mannered, but just manner is pretty stupid, especially since so many people use it in a serious tone... it would be different if they said it to be funny.

As a side note, I saw tastosis last week casting some blink stalker action. Tasteless remarked that the protoss just "blunk right on top" of the terran to which artosis replied "Yeah, he got blunked on". LOL, I found it hilarious. Even more reason to call it fedbacked, as long as you know it sounds silly :p

marttorn

Norway5211 Posts

April 18 2012 11:25 GMT

#109

fudback

Pronounced fødd-bach (as in the composer)

Alternatively fudbeck.