Driven to MadnessCaptain Placid asks: What annoying things do significant others, workmates and other people in general do that drive you up the wall? Do you want to kill your other half over their obsessive fridge magnet collection? Driven to distraction over your manager's continued use of Comic Sans (The Font of Champions)? Tell us.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 12:11)
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We do not offer a bibliographic serviceto help you write your fucking thesis. Do your own research for fucks sake; about two emails I have to reply to every day
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Jahled Three shades of black, Sat 6 Oct 2012, 23:43,
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wright?Shan't be signing up for your spell check/editing services either.
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Technically:Wouldn't either word work as a verb?
We have shipwrights who craft ships, wheelwrights who craft wheels (both using wood, as in the original definition); and considering playwrights as a later addition, you could at a stretch define a student as an "occupational worker" who crafts theses.
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The Incredible Sulk Finally remembered his password on, Sun 7 Oct 2012, 9:04,
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The verb is "to work".The "wright" is the person doing the working.
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The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 7 Oct 2012, 11:19,
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I admit, I seem to be wrongI've always been poor at remembering the definitions of Nouns, Verbs, Adverbs, Adjectives and so on. I had to do a bit of googling to try and get my head around this.
As I understood it, "playwright" the occupation is a Noun, whereas Verbs are 'doing' words. But of course, not all words can be used in all manners.
I was thinking about examples such as:
- asking a miller to mill you some flour
- asking a blacksmith to smith you some ironwork
- asking a baker to bake you some baked goods
- asking a writer to write you some writing
And thus derived:
- asking a wheelwright to wright you a wheel
- asking a shipwright to wright you a ship
- asking a playwright to wright you a play
Leading, in wobbly fashion, to:
- asking a student (an 'essaywright') to wright you an essay (Possibly as a ditransitive verb?).
I already realised it would be a tad contrived, and likely archaic. en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wright seems to support you, so I accept this is yet another pattern-defying example of the English language.
It could have been a top-notch pun if they had been reading literature, though :)
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The Incredible Sulk Finally remembered his password on, Sun 7 Oct 2012, 13:17,
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