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Hi guys. I've recently bougten 3 things from CAG in the past month. Even though I have 3 ratings, all of which seem to be positive, I only have a 2 on the iTrader. Could anyone help me?
Edit:I see that it says I have 3 positive feedbacks in the past 6 months...but I've only been here for a month =/
Rocko
10-01-2007, 06:51 PM
You only get one rating credit per user. For example, Shrike has 742 positive feedback, but only a 419 feedback score, meaning he's dealt with 419 unique users, and completed 742 trades overall.
Also, boughten is not a word.
Ohhhhhhhh. I see. Thanks. Boughten IS a word. Haven't been in imaginary land in a while,have you?
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Boughten is something that is commercially made or artificial.
Dentures are boughten.
My shirt is boughten.
You didn't boughten any games.
Foo228
10-01-2007, 07:35 PM
You only get one rating credit per user. For example, Shrike has 742 positive feedback, but only a 419 feedback score, meaning he's dealt with 419 unique users, and completed 742 trades overall.
spot on
Also, boughten is not a word.
This reminds me of last year when my English teachers argued on how hung and dove were/weren't words (the hell do I know if they are/aren't though..)
Guess I'll check dictionary.com for the helluva it
found it:
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a240/fofopopo/boughten.jpg
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a240/fofopopo/hung.jpg
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a240/fofopopo/dove.jpg
hmm...i guess boughten and dove are words but hung isn't? didn't know it was only slang/informal..
Liquid 2
10-01-2007, 07:41 PM
BOUGHTEN: bought·en (bôt'n) pronunciation Chiefly Northern U.S.
v.
A past participle of buy.
adj.
1. Commercially made; purchased, as opposed to homemade: boughten bread.
2. Artificial; false. Used of teeth.
REGIONAL NOTE American regional dialects allow freer adjectival use of certain past participles of verbs than does Standard English. Time-honored examples are boughten (chiefly Northern U.S.) and bought (chiefly Southern U.S.) to mean “purchased rather than homemade”: a boughten dress, bought bread. The Northern form boughten (as in store boughten) features the participial ending –en, added to bought, the participial form, probably by analogy with more common participial adjectives such as frozen. Another development, analogous to homemade, is evident in bought-made, cited in DARE from a Texas informant.
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Rocko
10-01-2007, 07:44 PM
The northen vs. southern would explain why I thought it wasn't a word, I suppose. I have always been told boughten is incorrect.
Liquid 2
10-01-2007, 07:51 PM
The northen vs. southern would explain why I thought it wasn't a word, I suppose. I have always been told boughten is incorrect.
Same.
I hadn't heard of its use as an adjective (that Brak) mentioned either.
Temporaryscars
10-01-2007, 07:53 PM
The northen vs. southern would explain why I thought it wasn't a word, I suppose. I have always been told boughten is incorrect.
I'm with ya rock. I didn't think it was a word either, and i'm a guy who has pretty much memorized the entirity of AP Style.
In fact, I don't care what the dictionary says, it's not a word.
The northen vs. southern would explain why I thought it wasn't a word, I suppose. I have always been told boughten is incorrect.
It is incorrect.
He used it way out of context.
Basically, in saying that he "boughten" the games, he said that he manufactured them.
He's an idiot.
Danimal
10-01-2007, 07:56 PM
The northen vs. southern would explain why I thought it wasn't a word, I suppose. I have always been told boughten is incorrect.
I'm in the nothern U.S. and I'm not sure I've ever even heard the word before this thread. When I read it in the OP, I had the same thought that you did- "That's not a word."
Now, thanks to the CAGs who researched it, I feel all edumacated.
Temporaryscars
10-01-2007, 07:58 PM
Look, just because it's in the dictionary, that doesn't mean it's a word (in the context we're using it here). "Bling" is in the dictionary. Not a word.
jaykrue
10-01-2007, 08:01 PM
Look, just because it's in the dictionary, that doesn't mean it's a word (in the context we're using it here). "Bling" is in the dictionary. Not a word.
Words get added to the dictionary all the time. Even Homer Simpson's 'Doh!' made the Oxford English Dictionary. (http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/06/14/english.newwords/)
Look, just because it's in the dictionary, that doesn't mean it's a word (in the context we're using it here). "Bling" is in the dictionary. Not a word.
Uh. Yeah. I think we've established that already. Thanks.
Temporaryscars
10-01-2007, 08:03 PM
Uh. Yeah. I think we've established that already. Thanks.
Oh yeah? Show me where? Before or after Danimal accepted the word as that way the OP made it out to be? If you could point that out, that would be great, thanks.
Oh yeah? Show me where? Before or after Danimal accepted the word as that way the OP made it out to be? If you could point that out, that would be great, thanks.
Are you seriously blind?
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Boughten is something that is commercially made or artificial.
Dentures are boughten.
My shirt is boughten.
You didn't boughten any games.
spot on
This reminds me of last year when my English teachers argued on how hung and dove were/weren't words (the hell do I know if they are/aren't though..)
Guess I'll check dictionary.com for the helluva it
found it:
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a240/fofopopo/boughten.jpg
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a240/fofopopo/hung.jpg
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a240/fofopopo/dove.jpg
hmm...i guess boughten and dove are words but hung isn't? didn't know it was only slang/informal..
BOUGHTEN: bought·en (bôt'n) pronunciation Chiefly Northern U.S.
v.
A past participle of buy.
adj.
1. Commercially made; purchased, as opposed to homemade: boughten bread.
2. Artificial; false. Used of teeth.
REGIONAL NOTE American regional dialects allow freer adjectival use of certain past participles of verbs than does Standard English. Time-honored examples are boughten (chiefly Northern U.S.) and bought (chiefly Southern U.S.) to mean “purchased rather than homemade”: a boughten dress, bought bread. The Northern form boughten (as in store boughten) features the participial ending –en, added to bought, the participial form, probably by analogy with more common participial adjectives such as frozen. Another development, analogous to homemade, is evident in bought-made, cited in DARE from a Texas informant.
Temporaryscars
10-01-2007, 08:08 PM
And what does any of that have to do with me saying that just because a word is in a dictionary, it doesn't make it a word? All you are showing me is that boughten means something other than what the OP thought it meant.
Danimal
10-01-2007, 08:10 PM
Oh yeah? Show me where? Before or after Danimal accepted the word as that way the OP made it out to be? If you could point that out, that would be great, thanks.
This may be a technicality, but I'd like to state that I wasn't so much accepting the word, as much as simply looking for an excuse to use the word "edumacated" in my post. Also, if "bling" isn't a word, what should I call all the gold necklaces I've boughten?
And what does any of that have to do with me saying that just because a word is in a dictionary, it doesn't make it a word? All you are showing me is that boughten means something other than what the OP thought it meant.
Wow. What a pointless and frivolous argument, then.
Temporaryscars
10-01-2007, 08:13 PM
Wow. What a pointless and frivolous argument, then.
You started it.
Foo228
10-01-2007, 08:24 PM
for what its worth, i heard the wrestling show on friday nights smackdown! was added to the dictionary so that might help shed some light on it..