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mrucb...@att.net

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Jun 14, 2014, 9:04:38 AM6/14/14
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There is a car ad on TV about how "the beaten path can be beaten"... There is a (USAian)saying 'X can't be beat' which sometimes may be said 'can't be beaten', more formally, perhaps. You might hear the opposite, for emphasis: "The mighty Yankees can be beat (or beaten)." You beat eggs, and they are beaten. Teams lose, and they are beaten. I don't think I ever noticed a past tense of that as: beatened... But it is out there... just Google for examples from some seemingly legitimately edited sources. You can be wakened. Can you be beatened? Spellchecker doesn't like it. Is it just an error?

Marius Hancu

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Jun 14, 2014, 1:26:50 PM6/14/14
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You need to limit the length of your lines in your posting tool at
column 72 or thereabouts.

"Beatened" is acceptable in Black English:

Perspectives on Black English
edited by Joey Lee Dillard
http://tinyurl.com/ou7otez

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Marius Hancu

Traddict

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Jun 14, 2014, 11:43:16 PM6/14/14
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<mrucb...@att.net> a �crit dans le message de groupe de discussion :
26d34f56-9119-4a3d...@googlegroups.com...
Incidentally, "(USAian)saying" could be cross-posted to the "Accidental
tongue-twisters" thread.

Traddict

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Jun 15, 2014, 9:32:01 AM6/15/14
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<mrucb...@att.net> a �crit dans le message de groupe de discussion :
26d34f56-9119-4a3d...@googlegroups.com...
> There is a car ad on TV about how "the beaten path can be beaten"... There
> is a (USAian)saying

Incidentally, "a (USAian)saying" could be cross-posted to the "Accidental
tongue-twisters" recent topic.

Anton Shepelev

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Jun 17, 2014, 3:44:30 PM6/17/14
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mrucb...@att.net:

> There is a car ad on TV about how "the beaten path
> can be beaten"... There is a (USAian)saying 'X
> can't be beat' which sometimes may be said 'can't
> be beaten', more formally, perhaps. You might hear
> the opposite, for emphasis: "The mighty Yankees can
> be beat (or beaten)." You beat eggs, and they
> are beaten. Teams lose, and they are beaten.
> [...]

Smiley Lewis (and then Fats Domino) sang:

Here come(s) Wednesday
I'm beat to my socks
My girl calls
Got to tell her that I'm out

Watch Fats perform it live:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKfGyse44Vk

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