Talk:bent
This is an interesting article, because it's partly regularly derived and partly idiomatic. I'm not sure I like separating past and past participle. Yes, they have different translations, but the translations aren't idiomatically different. If I saw "past or past participle of bend", that should be enough for me to work with. I'd have to understand which it was (or whether it was one of the other senses) from context, and I should know what a past and past participle are.
For that matter other words, I'm not sure we need translations for regularly derived forms at all. On the one hand, it seems convenient to the reader, but the need to add every new language definition two or more places at least doubles the room for error and practically guarantees inconsistency. E.g., does bent, past participle, have translations for every language that bend has? -dmh 17:49, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- yea, I think there's a reason you generally don't see direct translation of verb tenses. The "if the pulp dictionaries don't do it, there should be a reason that we should" rule of thumb. --Eean 18:49, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Informal term, I guess? --Sucio green (talk) 09:30, 4 April 2015 (UTC)