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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Yeet, yote, yutt.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

To ~~be~~ yote or not to ~~be~~ yote, that is the question

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

You know you've made it when you can drop the pretense.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

I was searching copper, and came back with gold.

Thanks kind stranger

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

First time I’ve learnt what the past tense of yeet is.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Academic language, bruh

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Human language truely is a wonder to behold.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Idk why, but I jumped to "yitten" first

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

Makes sense, sorta like eat / eaten

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

no no, "yoten" is old english plural, equivalent to modern "yeese".

it's the same grammar as "oxen".

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You're talking nouns though, I was going for a participle; cf. thrown

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months 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.
[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is like bureauocratic poetry

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

I like to think about it like a rap battle

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I love this sort of thing. Like NASA engineers calling an explosion a "rapid unscheduled disassembly."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Well, if there’s no humans on board and the bots can take the impact, why not?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

For anybody like myself who doesn't know enough ancient greek.. Lithos means rock...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithobraking

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

for the record... the engineering behind that was quite sound.

it's their ability to use consistent units of measurements that's in question.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Well that was when they performed lithobraking with a satellite, but they also did lithobraking on purpose for several rover landings

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Or a data breach an "emergent distributed backup"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Or ‘I dunno what was wrong, but banging it helped’ as ‘percussive maintenance’.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Our data is federated

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Is 'yote' the past tense of 'yeet'? I assumed it'd be 'yeeted'

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Go for both with yoted

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

"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 referred 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I like "yet" as a past tense because it sounds needlessly confusing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Yet sounds like the way an old southern man would use it in past tense.

"Fella just wouldn't shut up, so I yet 'im into the gorge."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

That's a very circumlocutious way of saying IDK, and I thank you for it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

awkward and unprofessional

yeah guys, remember to use the proper tense of yet in your emails to corporate

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

I loved the random seemingly unrelated Huckleberry Finn quote in the middle of their definition of yote