Talk:broadcasted
Latest comment: 9 years ago by Renard Migrant in topic RFV discussion: August 2014
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(rfv-sense): who proscribed it? Couldn't find any prove that the word is proscribed by anyone.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 11:54, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
- You must not have looked in the right places. For example, Theodore Bernstein in The Careful Writer, 1965. Garner's Modern American Usage (2009), very useful for this kind of thing, puts the "ed" form at 2 on its Language-Change Index, which means "Widely shunned". Language writers and editors have voted with their pencils and keyboards 34 to 1 c. 2008 for broadcast over broadcasted in "had been broadcast(ed)" (past participle) and 25 to 1 for broadcast over broadcasted in "they broadcast(ed). DCDuring TALK 13:29, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
- Some dictionaries show "broadcasted" as a secondary form in the US, but COCA has US writers, editors, and speakers voting 105 to 2 for broadcast over broadcasted in usage of the form "[nominative/subject pronoun] + broadcast(ed)".
- Looking at some of usage of broadcasted at Google Books, it seems that computer tech writing might be using broadcasted more than other writing. DCDuring TALK 13:42, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
- Striking as no rfv proposal is being made. Renard Migrant (talk) 15:49, 14 August 2014 (UTC)