My Junior year of high school, my English teacher was going over some commonly misused words and got on the subject of "hanged" vs. "hung". She said "When a blanket is clipped to a clothesline to dry, it is hung. When I man is executed by noose, he is hanged. Men are hanged. Men are not hung." My classmate raised his hand and... well, Long story short, my classmate got detention.
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TheBat@lemmy.world · 54 pts · 1y
foggy@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y
"Horses are hung. Men are hanged."
Kentifer@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Huh, I learned it about clothes and men. I like yours better.
Raiderkev@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
https://youtu.be/cdExsAQuCQA
whodatdair@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 1y
Harung
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
I don't know what that is, nor why it chose to collapse on Betelgeuse VII.
GunValkyrie@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
https://youtu.be/990BSql7bnk
TheBat@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
GunValkyrie@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Did you downvote me for posting a joke?
MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y
It seems like grammar pedantry knows no bounds. I updooted in retaliation. All things must be balanced.
VirgilMastercard@reddthat.com · 19 pts · 1y
I'm hung like shopping mall Christmas lights on the 1st of June
codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 pts · 1y
Dirty, partly broken, and yet still up somehow?
zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 1y
Inappropriate for the occasion but quite festive
Goltbrook@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y
covered in cobwebs, confusing the birds and one flick away from total darkness.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 18 pts · 1y
Putting the ‘strange’ in ‘getting some strange.’
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
The odds are good when the goods are odd
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
My Junior year of high school, my English teacher was going over some commonly misused words and got on the subject of "hanged" vs. "hung". She said "When a blanket is clipped to a clothesline to dry, it is hung. When I man is executed by noose, he is hanged. Men are hanged. Men are not hung." My classmate raised his hand and... well, Long story short, my classmate got detention.
Taleya@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 1y
Hung, witty, at the very least passing knowledge of history. Promising indeed
Amanduh@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
But they said a innocent woman and not an innocent woman, dealbreaker.
shalafi@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Hung like a baby. 10 pounds of danglin' fury.
tetris11@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 1y
the visual image, jesus
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Jesus too, came like that...