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Music to my ear and I wonder how much it costed them to comb through all of that.

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Fun fact, costed is a word but has a slightly different meaning than the way you have used it.

Costed means to get the details on the cost of something complex. Like “I costed the three projects and the last one is cheapest”

You tried to use it as the past tense of cost, but the past tense of cost is also just cost.

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6 points

I love free English classes…

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Free education? Hell yeah brother!

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Learning is great, especially when it costed nothing!

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I like OPs version better and chose to evolve the language that way.

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If only a very small handful of people make the same mistake, it doesn’t evolve the language, it’s just a mistake, plain and simple.

I know you’re just trying to make yourself feel a wee bit morally superior by saying that, but it’s the complete opposite of how language evolution works

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Yeah; as a native and fairly well-educated speaker, I’m fucked if I can form the past participles of some of our verbs

If I swim across a river, is it now the swimmed river? Swum river? Swam river?

If I sneak into a room, have I sneaked? Snuck? Both sound wrong.

Didn’t find anything ambiguous about ‘costed’, it works for me.

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Fun fact, ‘cost’ is a regular verb in Canadian English. Infering from the lemmy.ca instance, the comment op might be a Canadian, which means the usage of ‘costed’ is correct.

Source: https://grammarist.com/usage/costed/

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I am Canadian, and I was taught Cost as past tense in school and university. I’ve never seen it written Costed for past tense in any government publication either.

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So not only was it hateful, but it was wasteful, too. Good job, Utah.

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Feature not a bug

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Not that I want to defend these people but, why would they want that to cost a lot? Make a lot of BS jobs?

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First thing that comes to mind is republicans want government to be wasteful and useless. So they do shit like this, then blame government and regulations, then push for smaller government and ignore their own role in fucking things up.

Also, they’re giving jobs to bigots, which they love.

I’m sure there’s many other reasons.

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This is outrageous. They’re not even going to attempt to investigate my report about an alien beaming into the bathroom and touching my peepee? Just for that, I’m filing 10 more complaints.

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Never gonna catch me 👽

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On this planet, you don’t just leave a guy hanging like that. When you start a job, finish it dammit!

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I’m still waiting for my alien reach around.

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Gayliens.

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Which bathroom tho

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The humans’ bathroom.

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only five were investigated

Can one sue Utah for gross neglience now? I mean, they got thousands of complaints from concerned citizens, and they only cared for investigating five of them? Or do they profile those complaints into “we are not investigating certain types of people”, e.g. politicians that have been reported?

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It’s only 5 so far, reading the Bee Movie script takes a long time, especially when they have to keep stopping to sound out every other word.

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I want to know how they “investigate” this bullshit. This is a complete waste of tax payers money…but since it’s from the party of small gov. And saving money its ok cause we have to know who’s got what equipment and going into what bathrooms.

All business’s should just swap all their signs over to unisex and be done with this bullshit.

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They review hundred of hours of hidden toilet cam footage. How else would you investigate?

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Looks like they took the form down. If anyone has a new link, please post it. I’ve got some creative writing to share with the bigots in Utah.

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