Caughten? Bloody hell....
Right Ma'am of course you have *caughten* that bus where no bus runs and never has, I am obviously lying to you just to make your life more difficult. Your head must be full of caughten....
Sorry, but that one really made me laugh...I just had to share.
I love my job.
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Heather, be nice to your clients.
Yes, lie to them. For instance, tell them that their bus will arrive at some point vaguely resembling the scheduled time.
I'm nice to the clients, honestly you can't piss around with customer service here, plus most of my clients are great, but the ones that stand out are usually pretty funny. That is just what I would like to say to them.
And no, thanks for the advice boys but, lying to them would only support the whole conspiracy theory.
"caughten"..... ouch, kind of makes you appreciate the people who can actually communicate using real words but still sound like idiots.
Who says "caughten"? What.... who.... f**k. How does that word even enter into someones vocabulary?
I hear ya, Dude....but these grammatical errors make my work day entertaining.
I think she honestly thought 'caughten' was a word. I love people who use big words without knowing what they mean. If you can believe it some customers have no idea what a "destination" means.
I get a lot of:
"I'm leaving from my destination at eight and I have to go to West Ed..."
One guy called it his "Destiny"....so I referred to it as his "Destiny" too...."that will drop you off about two blocks from your destiny, sir..."
And who can forget the lady that wanted to go to the book "suppository" (ouch! ummm...I think you mean depository)..that's a classic.
suppository... where's my proctologist...
Caughten...good lord. Was this a crazy lady? Did she have a pet lemur that she brang with her? And she should know, you say "I've tooken that bus before." Some people are dumb.
--The Dude
Sheesh, people, don't you know any grammar at all?
She's trying to over-regularize the past conjugation of a slightly irregular verb. It's a perfectly straightforward grammatical error to make, particularly if your first language is one that is rather more regular than english (which is, of course, notoriously irregular).
My prediction: in a few centuries, english will be substantially more regular and 'caughten' will be the standard usage, along the lines of 'taken', 'written', 'driven', etc.
Jones.
Thank you Jones, for your enlightened comment. I agree that "caughten," while currently considered obsolete in English vocabulary, will likely reappear as grammatically acceptable at some point in the future. In fact, it has made appearances since as early as the 14th century, in Middle English.
This is a very common and mundane error that should hardly be any indication of a person's intelligence. If you need more convincing, I am currently a student at an Ivy league school and have heard a number of students use this word, particularly in the phrase "has caughten up with me."
Those of you who enjoy ridiculing a person for random errors in a crazy, irregular language such as English would do well to lighten up. I'm sure if people were to record your spoken English at length, errors would found. Spoken language is notorious for having a much higher frequency of such errors than more formal, written language. Anyway, I only want to suggest that people shouldn't be so quick to make assumptions about people's intelligence based on such a meaningless error.
Historically, languages have always been mutable, undergoing a natural evolution that grammar tries to disrupt and fix at a specific point of development. :)
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