Re: (In)transitive verbs

Quoting Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...>:

> --- Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
>
> > "Regular" and "irregular" merely indicates
> > conformance and non-conformance,
> > respectively, to some set of rules.
>
> A good reason NOT to use those terms in this
> context! Sing-sang-sung is perfectly regular.
Not according to the set of rules that says that English preterites and
perfects are formed by adding -ed, period. That that's an IMNSHO poorly chosen
set is beside the point.

And if we chose a Germanesque approach to classifying English verbs, which I'd
rather like to, is-was-been is still screamingly irregular.

                                                 Andreas

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