First time I’ve learnt what the past tense of yeet is.
Academic language
Submitted 1 year ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Dasus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Academic language, bruh
Contramuffin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I wonder if the wording depends on the field.
As a microbiologist, I would have phrased it like:
- The sample was destroyed during handling and was not considered for further analysis.
- The animal was not amenable to handling and was excluded from sample collection.
jwelch55@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Is ‘yote’ the past tense of ‘yeet’? I assumed it’d be ‘yeeted’
ornery_chemist@mander.xyz 1 year ago
“Proper” conjugations are not totally settled, especially given its slang nature. Yeet does feel like it might be strong (stem-changing), though there’s really no authority on it. Interestingly, I found on googling that there is a version of the verb yeet stemming from Middle English verb yeten, which has two variations. The first meant “to address with the pronoun ye” (e.g., as opposed to thou) and had weak conjugations (i.e., yeeted/yeted). The other sense refered to pouring or moving liquids and could be either strong or weak (simple past: yet or yote, or yeted; participle: yote, yoten, yeted). So, looking for historical comparisons is also unhelpful.
not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s a very circumlocutious way of saying IDK, and I thank you for it.
Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I like “yet” as a past tense because it sounds needlessly confusing.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 year ago
snooggums@midwest.social 1 year ago
While “yeeted” may sound like the past tense of “yeet,” it is actually incorrect. The correct past tense of “yeet” is “yote.” Using “yeeted” instead of “yote” can make your writing sound awkward and unprofessional.
This is the best thing I have read today, thank you!
newnton@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I loved the random seemingly unrelated Huckleberry Finn quote in the middle of their definition of yote
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
the way language works, it’s just however people choose to use it. Use the version you think is best.
personally i go for “yate” beause that sounds funny.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Go for both with yoted
Splatterphace@lemm.ee 1 year ago
This is like bureauocratic poetry
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 year ago
I like to think about it like a rap battle
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 year ago
You know you’ve made it when you can drop the pretense.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
To
liveyote or not toliveyote, that is the questionAnticorp@lemmy.world 1 year ago
When did yeeted become yote?
King_Bob_IV@startrek.website 1 year ago
No idea but I love it
anarchy79@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeet, yote, yutt.
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I love this sort of thing. Like NASA scientists calling an explosion a “rapid unscheduled disassembly.”
SaintWacko@midwest.social 1 year ago
Or a data breach an “emergent distributed backup”
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Our data is federated
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Or ‘I dunno what was wrong, but banging it helped’ as ‘percussive maintenance’.
marcos@lemmy.world 1 year ago
At the first days of planning their Moon landing, NASA came out with lithobraking for the times the capsule wouldn’t slow down enough.
Then, some 20 and something years lather, when planing their Mars landers, they decided that no, lithobraking is a perfectly fine thing to do and the landers would use it by design.
So be wary of rocket scientists making jokes.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 year ago
for the record… the engineering behind that was quite sound.
it’s their ability to use consistent units of measurements that’s in question.
Trashcan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
For anybody like mine who doesn’t know enough ancient greek… Lithos means rock…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithobraking
Mongostein@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Well, if there’s no humans on board and the bots can take the impact, why not?
Natanael@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
If you lithobreak into a low gravity object with enough momentum and at an angle you may return into orbit