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[–] Beaver@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Music to my ear and I wonder how much it costed them to comb through all of that.

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Fun fact, costed is a word but has a slightly different meaning than the way you have used it.

Costed means to get the details on the cost of something complex. Like "I costed the three projects and the last one is cheapest"

You tried to use it as the past tense of cost, but the past tense of cost is also just cost.

[–] TheBigBrother@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I love free English classes..

[–] hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Free education? Hell yeah brother!

[–] SpermHowitzer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

Learning is great, especially when it costed nothing!

[–] escalate8315@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Fun fact, 'cost' is a regular verb in Canadian English. Infering from the lemmy.ca instance, the comment op might be a Canadian, which means the usage of 'costed' is correct.

Source: https://grammarist.com/usage/costed/

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

I am Canadian, and I was taught Cost as past tense in school and university. I've never seen it written Costed for past tense in any government publication either.

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I like OPs version better and chose to evolve the language that way.

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

If only a very small handful of people make the same mistake, it doesn't evolve the language, it's just a mistake, plain and simple.

I know you're just trying to make yourself feel a wee bit morally superior by saying that, but it's the complete opposite of how language evolution works

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's not a mistake if I can understand the message.

[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

It's still a mistake, no matter whether yo cn undrstnd th sntnce

[–] addie@feddit.uk 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah; as a native and fairly well-educated speaker, I'm fucked if I can form the past participles of some of our verbs

If I swim across a river, is it now the swimmed river? Swum river? Swam river?

If I sneak into a room, have I sneaked? Snuck? Both sound wrong.

Didn't find anything ambiguous about 'costed', it works for me.

[–] Censored@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

If you swim across a river, it is now a river you've swum. If you sneak into a room, you have snuck in.

Those are correct but they look and sound wrong.