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# podling?
oh pod-ling

like underling

I thought you meant like an adverb - 'he was just podling around'
(, Tue 18 Sep 2007, 15:13, archived)
# podling as in dark crystal creature
researched to reply to /talk board post about a girl with primordial dwarfism.

i'm dead sensitive about these things. the bloody podling.
(, Tue 18 Sep 2007, 15:15, archived)
#
adverb gerund
(, Tue 18 Sep 2007, 15:16, archived)
# pedanting much?
:)
(, Tue 18 Sep 2007, 15:17, archived)
# I stand corrected
I was never great at these things

gerund it is then

(never heard of this)
(, Tue 18 Sep 2007, 15:17, archived)
# Actually it's a participle in function in your sentence
but a gerund in form

or something

(I love the way everyone assumed I knew what I was talking about with this one ;) )
(, Tue 18 Sep 2007, 15:20, archived)
# It's just the past participle, surely?
(, Tue 18 Sep 2007, 15:26, archived)
# don't cross the beams!
(, Tue 18 Sep 2007, 15:32, archived)
# present participle really
but shhh
(, Tue 18 Sep 2007, 15:47, archived)
# ^ That's why we need you round here....
:)
(, Tue 18 Sep 2007, 15:18, archived)
# This
Debbil - the filthy filthy, English Proffessor
(, Tue 18 Sep 2007, 15:19, archived)