Re: (In)transitive verbs

Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:


> Applying the rule takes longer than the lookup, so some
> very-frequently-used regular verbs have their -ed forms cached with the
> -ed already in place; but the reverse is not true.  Non-ed verbs are
> never formed by rule in real time.
What about my annoying (annoying to me in any case) Tendency of
having /i:/>/E/ in preterites. I sometimes have to consciously stop myself
from saying "semt", "frekt" for "seemed", "freaked" (as in "he totally freaked
out when he heard about the eleven-foot pink toy panda"). No doubt they slip
under the radar way to often ... It very much seems to me my brain has
generalized a rule from forms like "dreamt", "kept", and considers the regular
formation irregular.

                                                     Andreas

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