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I felt like I had won something when he got so sick of me telling the truth on Twitter that he blocked me. He did not invent email as we know it today. He copy
by greggh 9y ago
I felt like I had won something when he got so sick of me telling the truth on Twitter that he blocked me.
He did not invent email as we know it today. He copywrited a term that described something people had already been doing for many years. That is not invention.
- teddyh 9y agoThere’s no such word as “copywrited”. The closest word is “copyrighted”, but you can’t copyright a term. You can get a trademark for a term, but it seems that’s not what this is about either.
- pbhjpbhj 9y ago"copywrited" is pretty understandable and definitely a word, it may not be a mainstream dictionary word however. A section of text produced by a copywriter has been "copywrited". It's ugly and unnecessary use of language IMO, I side with https://www.rensch.com/copywrite.html https://www.rensch.com/copywrite.html more. It has nothing whatever to do with intellectual property _rights_ however.
- jcranmer 9y agoGiven that the past participle of "write" is "written" and the preterite is "wrote", the forms of "copywrite" should be "copywrote" and "copywritten", not "copywrited."
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoThey should be, agreed, but people don't always language in ways we expect.
- stevekemp 9y agoThat seems logical, unfortunately the only response which can be made is "English is weird". (Though people do try to generalise rules like this, I see a lot of foreigners try to write "payed" instead of "paid". Similar idea, and equally logical.)