Casting terminology

[twopintsplease]

Recently on several podcast’s and YouTube Video coming from the US I find it odd to hear reference to “casted” parts were as Aus , NZ , UK were I am familiar it would be said a “cast” part, is this normal or a linguistic oddity with those people

[Fasttrack]

Recently on several podcast’s and YouTube Video coming from the US I find it odd to hear reference to “casted” parts were as Aus , NZ , UK were I am familiar it would be said a “cast” part, is this normal or a linguistic oddity with those people

Bloody dumb Yanks, I'd say

Frankly, if I heard one of my countrymen saying "casted" in a YouTube video, I'd switch to a different video, assuming that the speaker had absolutely zero credibility.

It does seem "casted" is gaining popularity in the spoken language, though: https://grammarist.com/usage/casted/

[Jim Stewart]

Bloody dumb Yanks, I'd say

Frankly, if I heard one of my countrymen saying "casted" in a YouTube video, I'd switch to a different video, assuming that the speaker had absolutely zero credibility.

It does seem "casted" is gaining popularity in the spoken language, though: https://grammarist.com/usage/casted/

Took the words right out of my mouth.

-js

[Bented]

A suffix added to words in the English language indicating a past tense.

acted
bollocked
creamed
disfigured
educated
buggered
greeted
hardened

And so on

[Dan Dubeau]

Were they casted in aluminium, and then lathed using a dee are oh?

"cast" is the correct when refering to a "cast part". I wouldn't put too much stock in things said on you tube and pod casts. While sometimes the message can be good, the delivery is terrible. And also the inverse is true as well. In short, you tube is like a box of chocolates.

[Dave C]

If you pay attention to all the grammatical, pronounciation, syntax and just plain misuse you will notice many, many errors of speech. One of my favorites: "Had went"

[Jim Stewart]

As you know, English is a very irregular language. The past tense of "cast" is "cast". My wife (my authority on language) points out that your verbs are "regular" while "cast" is an "irregular" verb.

-js

[Corbettprime]

Agreed, too d--n many illiterate fools that are products of policitically correct schools!

[Jim Stewart]

Agreed, too d--n many illiterate fools that are products of policitically correct schools!

Politically correct schools? Where on earth did that come from?

Are you seriously suggesting that illiteracy is greater in "politically correct" California than in, for example, Mississippi or Arkansas or (ahem) Colorado?

Oh, BTW, you might want to use your spell checker...


-js

[darryl]

I casted that bad capacitator in the bin, along with a resistitor and the transistitor. They were both bad- one was burnt, and the other was burned.

[Dave C]

I casted that bad capacitator in the bin, along with a resistitor and the transistitor. They were both bad- one was burnt, and the other was burned.

Gotta love it 😀

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As you know, English is a very irregular language. The past tense of "cast" is "cast". My wife (my authority on language) points out that your verbs are "regular" while "cast" is an "irregular" verb.

-js

Very irregular, indeed. And the past tense of "cast" was "casted" but that fell out of favor around the 16th century or so. But it's appearance in both printed and spoken language is on the rise again. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your perspective), English is a dynamic language that continues to evolve in both diction and grammar.

[MattiJ]

As you know, English is a very irregular language. The past tense of "cast" is "cast". My wife (my authority on language) points out that your verbs are "regular" while "cast" is an "irregular" verb.

-js

And you never know in advance what is the spelling and pronunciation.

To make things more complicated I learned British English in the school and nearly half of the tv series I watch are British.

[Hopefuldave]

And you never know in advance what is the spelling and pronunciation.

To make things more complicated I learned British English in the school and nearly half of the tv series I watch are British.

You learned English, not American "simplified" English. Please excuse the correction!

Dave H. (the other one)

[Corbettprime]

Politically correct schools? Where on earth did that come from?

Are you seriously suggesting that illiteracy is greater in "politically correct" California than in, for example, Mississippi or Arkansas or (ahem) Colorado?

Oh, BTW, you might want to use your spell checker...


-js

Yup, California is definitely worse than Colorado. And it's kind of fun to bypass spellchecker and see who noticed.