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Only race cars should burnout
- stiglitz 7y agoThis is a risky comment and probably too snarky. But this is a fundamental pattern in English and I wish at least native speakers would get it right. NOUN: burnout shutdown failover VERB: burn out shut down fail over Just about any verb+adverb pair follows this pattern in English.
- mlevental 7y agoI don't know about the others but to burn out as the correct verb and to burnout as the incorrect verb mean two different things. I'm pretty sure this exactly the same phenomenon that gives us things like "to Google" where Google is a noun.
- ebg13 7y ago> but to burn out as the correct verb and to burnout as the incorrect verb mean two different things They don't, though.
- mlevental 7y agosorry i haven't seen many race cars burn out like candles or burn out like overworked employees. i have seen many though perform burnouts where they warm up the tires to increase how sticky they are.
- stiglitz 7y agoYes, it’s correct to say that they “perform burnouts,” because “burnout” is being used there as a noun.
- ebg13 7y ago> i haven't seen many race cars burn out like candles I think you're getting confused by ommitted implied words. When a race car burns out, it is burning out its tires not itself.
- SamReidHughes 7y agoOkay Webster, you aren't talking about English, you're talking about its projection into text.
- mikelyons 7y agoit's just pedantic and insubstantive
- homonculus1 7y agoNot at all. The details of language convey information and if we don't continually apply common standards, that bandwidth is actually destroyed in the ambiguity.
- mikelyons 7y agoI agree with your premise but I think it's generalizing, there are contexts where it is pedantic and insubstantive. Language evolves and not always the way the purists would have it.
- techslave 7y agologin log in
- lodi 7y agoNot snarky at all... if the title properly used "burn out", I wouldn't have expected the article to be motorsports-related.