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Re: Only race cars should burnout

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This is a risky comment and probably too snarky. But this is a fundamental pattern in English and I wish at least native speakers would get it right.

NOUN: burnout shutdown failover

VERB: burn out shut down fail over

Just about any verb+adverb pair follows this pattern in English.

Re: Only race cars should burnout

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post #2

This is a risky comment and probably too snarky. But this is a fundamental pattern in English and I wish at least native speakers would get it right. NOUN: burnout shutdown failover VERB: burn out shut down fail over Just about any verb+adverb pair follows this pattern in English.

I don't know about the others but to burn out as the correct verb and to burnout as the incorrect verb mean two different things. I'm pretty sure this exactly the same phenomenon that gives us things like "to Google" where Google is a noun.

Re: Only race cars should burnout

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post #2

This is a risky comment and probably too snarky. But this is a fundamental pattern in English and I wish at least native speakers would get it right. NOUN: burnout shutdown failover VERB: burn out shut down fail over Just about any verb+adverb pair follows this pattern in English.

Okay Webster, you aren't talking about English, you're talking about its projection into text.

Re: Only race cars should burnout

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post #2

This is a risky comment and probably too snarky. But this is a fundamental pattern in English and I wish at least native speakers would get it right. NOUN: burnout shutdown failover VERB: burn out shut down fail over Just about any verb+adverb pair follows this pattern in English.

it's just pedantic and insubstantive

Re: Only race cars should burnout

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post #2

This is a risky comment and probably too snarky. But this is a fundamental pattern in English and I wish at least native speakers would get it right. NOUN: burnout shutdown failover VERB: burn out shut down fail over Just about any verb+adverb pair follows this pattern in English.

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Re: Only race cars should burnout

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post #2

This is a risky comment and probably too snarky. But this is a fundamental pattern in English and I wish at least native speakers would get it right. NOUN: burnout shutdown failover VERB: burn out shut down fail over Just about any verb+adverb pair follows this pattern in English.

I don't know about the others but to burn out as the correct verb and to burnout as the incorrect verb mean two different things. I'm pretty sure this exactly the same phenomenon that gives us things like "to Google" where Google is a noun.

> but to burn out as the correct verb and to burnout as the incorrect verb mean two different things

They don't, though.

Re: Only race cars should burnout

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post #2

This is a risky comment and probably too snarky. But this is a fundamental pattern in English and I wish at least native speakers would get it right. NOUN: burnout shutdown failover VERB: burn out shut down fail over Just about any verb+adverb pair follows this pattern in English.

Not snarky at all... if the title properly used "burn out", I wouldn't have expected the article to be motorsports-related.

Re: Only race cars should burnout

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post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know about the others but to burn out as the correct verb and to burnout as the incorrect verb mean two different things. I'm pretty sure this exactly the same phenomenon that gives us things like "to Google" where Google is a noun.

> but to burn out as the correct verb and to burnout as the incorrect verb mean two different things They don't, though.

sorry i haven't seen many race cars burn out like candles or burn out like overworked employees. i have seen many though perform burnouts where they warm up the tires to increase how sticky they are.

Re: Only race cars should burnout

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post #2

This is a risky comment and probably too snarky. But this is a fundamental pattern in English and I wish at least native speakers would get it right. NOUN: burnout shutdown failover VERB: burn out shut down fail over Just about any verb+adverb pair follows this pattern in English.

it's just pedantic and insubstantive

Not at all. The details of language convey information and if we don't continually apply common standards, that bandwidth is actually destroyed in the ambiguity.
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