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[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago

My Junior year of high school, my English teacher was going over some commonly misused words and got on the subject of "hanged" vs. "hung". She said "When a blanket is clipped to a clothesline to dry, it is hung. When I man is executed by noose, he is hanged. Men are hanged. Men are not hung." My classmate raised his hand and... well, Long story short, my classmate got detention.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 49 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
[-] GunValkyrie@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago
[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

The past tense of hang in almost all situations is hung. You hung a picture on the wall yesterday, or you hung out at the mall last week. Only use hanged when referring to someone who has been killed by hanging.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/hung-or-hanged

[-] GunValkyrie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Did you downvote me for posting a joke?

[-] MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 23 hours ago

It seems like grammar pedantry knows no bounds. I updooted in retaliation. All things must be balanced.

[-] whodatdair 2 points 2 days ago
[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I don't know what that is, nor why it chose to collapse on Betelgeuse VII.

[-] VirgilMastercard@reddthat.com 19 points 2 days ago

I'm hung like shopping mall Christmas lights on the 1st of June

[-] Goltbrook@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

covered in cobwebs, confusing the birds and one flick away from total darkness.

[-] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 days ago

Dirty, partly broken, and yet still up somehow?

[-] zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 days ago

Inappropriate for the occasion but quite festive

[-] Catoblepas 16 points 2 days ago

Putting the ‘strange’ in ‘getting some strange.’

[-] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 3 points 20 hours ago

The odds are good when the goods are odd

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 6 points 2 days ago

Hung, witty, at the very least passing knowledge of history. Promising indeed

[-] Amanduh@lemm.ee 3 points 22 hours ago

But they said a innocent woman and not an innocent woman, dealbreaker.

this post was submitted on 23 May 2025
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