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>"Coding tricks I learnt at Apple" I'd wager "learning how to properly use 'learned'" wasn't one of them. http://www.urch.com/forums/english/9214-learned-vs-l
by seanp2k 15y ago
>"Coding tricks I learnt at Apple"
I'd wager "learning how to properly use 'learned'" wasn't one of them.
http://www.urch.com/forums/english/9214-learned-vs-learnt.html http://www.urch.com/forums/english/9214-learned-vs-learnt.ht...
"The descriptive answer in American English is:
There is no such word as "learnt". Use "learned" always."
- maukdaddy 15y agoHate to break it to you, but not everyone on the Internets speaks American English.
- michaelcampbell 15y agoYou don't sound like you hate it one bit.
- michaelcampbell 15y agoThe article's title is "Tricks I Learned At Apple: Steve Jobs Load Testing"; the use of "learnt" must have been from whiskers who posted it.
- whiskers 15y agoI'm from the UK - learnt is perfectly valid here!
- michaelcampbell 15y ago<nod> I wasn't asserting that you were wrong, only that the user to whom I replied that implied the author of the article used it incorrectly was wrong in his assertion.
- smiler 15y agoWith that sentence construction, you could be a lawyer :)
- svdad 15y agoWith that sentence construction, he must be a Perl programmer.
- michaelcampbell 15y agoThanks... I think? I'm a programmer by trade, and perl is but one of many languages I use with regular frequency.
- marshray 15y agoYeah, but so is 'kilt'. In the US, we consider that poor grammar, as in: "I done did kilt three of 'em skeeters on me yesterday." OK, maybe yours is a noun, but still!
- albedoa 15y agoIgnoring that the submission title doesn't accurately reflect the original title, and even though you might be right, I'm having trouble understanding your decision to cite a 2004 post by user "Rommie" of the Urch forums as an authority on American English.