The Way Of The World

What? You all spill over one another to send me jokes that only a fourth-grader with ADD would find funny and NOBODY can comment on my story?

*sheesh*

Goat-lovers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your...uh, yeah, um, mumble-mumble...

 

In Response to Colin (#3649):

The ground was loamy and rich with rain and run-off; it sucked at your feet when you walked, splattered you, sneaked up your pant leg, found its way underneath your fingernails and in-between your toes.

I think you should have used 'snuck'.

"Sneaked" is proper grammar. "Snuck" is either just ignorance (not knowing, not the bad connotation most people give the word), apathy, laziness, or just utter retardation.

In Response to derFunkenstein (#3695):

Proper grammar where? What are your sources?

From its earliest appearance in print in the late 19th century as a dialectal and probably uneducated form, the past and past participle snuck has risen to the status of standard and to approximate equality with sneaked. [m-w.com]

And it would have been more proper of you to reply to my message, instead of Colin's.

In Response to zamphir (#3697):

As usual, the truth lies somewhere between the two. The OED acknowledges the existence of "snuck", but describes it as "chiefly U.S. pa. tense and pple. of SNEAK v." -- so, in other words, it is not thoroughly unacceptable, but there's a definite suggestion that "sneaked" is preferable.

Eh. It's no William Congreve, but it's not bad.

In Response to zamphir (#3697):

More proper? it's either proper or it isn't.