I've been brainwashed. It's "dived" rather than "dove," right?
So what do I do? I just wrote "seeked" (past tense of "seek"). And then I dumbly stared at the red line telling me I had a spelling error.
Of course it's a spelling error. The past tense of "seek" is "sought."
*sighs and shakes head*
Google returns 843,000 matches for 'seeked'.
The first page is filled by dictionaries alleging that 'seeked' is incorrect. But on progressing further, it seems 'seeked' can be a valid term in the fields of computers and videos. And then there are the cases where it's a misspelling of 'sought' :(
AJ
it seems 'seeked' can be a valid term in the fields of computers and videos.
That sounds fine to me. If you have a noun that you press into service as a verb, then you conjugate it regularly.
One of the only exceptions I know of is when you have some headcase attempting to Chanel No.5 you.
If you have a noun that you press into service as a verb, then you conjugate it regularly.
True, but seek has always been a verb.
No, the two contexts I mentioned have co-opted it as a noun to fill a gap in their jargon.
AJ
No, the two contexts I mentioned have co-opted it as a noun to fill a gap in their jargon.
1. that's still not a noun becoming a verb, its a verb that's already irregular becoming a noun.
2. You are incorrect, yes seeked is a valid term in computers and video, but it is a function/action. That is to say even in those contexts, it is a verb, not a noun. (I am an IT professional)
I am an IT professional
Appeal to authority? Tsk tsk.
I was wrong about two contexts - they're both about accessing magnetic/optical media.
I've seen 'seek' as a noun in IT contexts eg 'The database is instructed to perform a seek. Depending on the level of indexing, it may have to follow a link to one or more overflow sectors.'
AJ
I've seen 'seek' as a noun in IT contexts eg 'The database is instructed to perform a seek.
Nouns don't have a past tense, so seeked must be a verb usage.
Nouns don't have a past tense, so seeked must be a verb usage.
No arguments there. I reckon the people who coined the jargon were keen to avoid using search and searched/sought.
AJ
No arguments there. I reckon the people who coined the jargon were keen to avoid using search and searched/sought.
It's a bit much to get into the technical differences in this forum, but seek and search are both used in computing and they are not synonyms.
Seeked is used in computing rather than sought for reasons that have nothing to do with the rules for turning verbs into nouns.
1. Modern computing originated in the US and UK, so computing jargon is mostly in English.
2. There are a lot of people in computing for whom English is not their primary language.
3. Computing people in general tend to prefer things to make logical sense. Irregular verb forms don't, so with computing terms, we use regular forms even where the term is irregular in common usage.
Nouns don't have a past tense, so seeked must be a verb usage.
Then "seeked" must be what the data dripping out of Debbie's mouth is doing, as it's searching for it's own 'happy ending', or in this case, a 'happy opening'. 'D
1. that's still not a noun becoming a verb, its a verb that's already irregular becoming a noun.
Does that make it a transverbial, or perhaps a 'trans-verb'? Did it know at a very young age that it wasn't really a verb, even though that's what it's grammatical assignment by society said it was?
I've been brainwashed. It's "dived" rather than "dove," right?
You sure it's not "doved"? 'D
Or is that the past-perfect tense? I always become tense when I'm surrounded by deities from the past.
Present, Past, and Future walked into a bar. It was tense.
The bar had been set up in a temporary facility. It was in tents.
Look me up when you get here, I'll show you around. :)
I saw you arriving, and have been hiding for years.
and have been hiding for years.
Not well enough, the voices in Kurt Cobain's head told me where you were.
Google returns 843,000 matches for 'seeked'.
Wow! there's that many people who get it wrong!
edit to add: odd result I highlighted in AJ's post and it shows as a quote from Switch.
