Holy moly proper use of the regular past tense of sneak?? I haven't seen that on the internet ever. "I sneaked my way into the concert, but I also snuck several beers into the venue."

[–] belastend@slrpnk.net 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Wait, English has two different verbs "to sneak"?

[–] d00ery@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

More than that. One can creep about, or flit stealthily from place to place.

I'm sure there's more.

[–] belastend@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nono, those are synonyms of " to sneak". He is saying that sneak has two different past tenses, depending on the meaning.

[–] d00ery@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Oh I understand now that I misunderstood.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Transitive vs intransitive, I guess

[–] belastend@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That would be an absolute anomaly in English, as far as I know.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes, because English is such a structured and regular language otherwise

[–] belastend@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 months ago

I think you conflate irregular orthography and irregular grammar or conjugation paradigms.

Like it's pretty regular otherwise.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Hmmmm

My German speaking brain (as a second language, my native language is English) is interpreting “my way” and “several beers” as accusative objects, and the repeated use of “into” as clues which would make me want to use the same conjugation for both. I could see “I sneaked into the concert but I also snuck several beers in.”