Wordie: Taze: Comments

Comment by burntsox, about 1 year ago

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:08:57 +0000

sorry - two errors in a very short space. Thomas A. SWIFT, and the company uses "tase" as the verb.

Comment by burntsox, about 1 year ago

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:02:01 +0000

all true, but the etymology suggests otherwise. TASER was the original form, so all bets are off.

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:51:07 +0000

But taser just doesn't make sense as a verb. A walker walks. A shooter shoots. A driver drives. A taser tases.

Comment by burntsox, about 1 year ago

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:02:47 +0000

I don't wanna go all mainstream on you, but Grammar Girl had a recent segment on the verb TAZE. She contacted the manufacturer, who suggested the comparny preferred the verb TASER, not TASE or TAZE.

And the acronym - Thomas A Smith (?) Electronic Rifle - is simply amazing.

Comment by skipvia, about 1 year ago

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 06:43:50 +0000

You should get a big chuckle out of this paper by Owen Smith, SUNY Stony Brook, in which he explains that "the longitudinal modes of a laser are those modes that will laze at slightly different frequencies. Any frequency that has a gain high enough to equal or exceed the losses of the lazing cavity can laze." He probably doesn't realize that LASER is an acronym.

Comment by seanahan, about 1 year ago

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 05:05:37 +0000

Look, you can spell it however you want, but in general, if you had to choose between the two spellings, you should choose the s. Likewise, you can pronounce forte with two syllables when you're not talking about music, but I'm going to laugh at you.

Comment by skipvia, about 1 year ago

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 03:26:26 +0000

It has appeared as "taze" in mainstream print sources several times over the past few weeks, usually in reference to the "Don't Taze Me, Man" video on YouTube. It also has several slang definitions listed in the Urban Dictionary, for what that's worth.

Comment by seanahan, about 1 year ago

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 01:58:46 +0000

It's an acronym.

Comment by chained_bear, about 1 year ago

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:22:28 +0000

Umm... so?

Comment by seanahan, about 1 year ago

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 14:38:45 +0000

Given the etymology of the word, I don't think this is valid.

Comment by skipvia, about 1 year ago

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 04:15:35 +0000

Alternate spelling of tase.