• snooggums@midwest.social
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        8 months ago

        While “yeeted” may sound like the past tense of “yeet,” it is actually incorrect. The correct past tense of “yeet” is “yote.” Using “yeeted” instead of “yote” can make your writing sound awkward and unprofessional.

        This is the best thing I have read today, thank you!

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          8 months ago

          awkward and unprofessional

          yeah guys, remember to use the proper tense of yet in your emails to corporate

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      8 months ago

      “Proper” conjugations are not totally settled, especially given its slang nature. Yeet does feel like it might be strong (stem-changing), though there’s really no authority on it. Interestingly, I found on googling that there is a version of the verb yeet stemming from Middle English verb yeten, which has two variations. The first meant “to address with the pronoun ye” (e.g., as opposed to thou) and had weak conjugations (i.e., yeeted/yeted). The other sense referred to pouring or moving liquids and could be either strong or weak (simple past: yet or yote, or yeted; participle: yote, yoten, yeted). So, looking for historical comparisons is also unhelpful.