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[gfish]

Random thought on how to portray a civilization as beyond ancient: make its technical verbs irregular.

I grep the file.
She greps the file.
I grood the file yesterday.
They grode the file last month.
The file was greppen.

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[maribou]

I am simultaneously amused and mildly embarrassed that when I read this post my first reflexive thought was "I really think that should be 'The file was gropped'."

Not saying I'm correct in any way, and realizing that misses the point of the post - just amused that that was my first instinctive thought.

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

That looks too much like 'the file was groped', which would make it an entirely different kind of file...