Spc. Jeremy Sivits today pleaded guilty to criminal charges in the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal and was sentenced to one year of being fed through an industrial plastic shredder. His sentence by a special court-martial judge includes discharge for bad conduct and demotion. Then the plastic shredder thing.
And by “sentenced to one year of being fed through an industrial plastic shredder,” I really meant to write, “sentenced to one year confinement.” My apologies. Forgot for a second which “management” was running things. Forgive me, Senator Kennedy.
Sorry in advance; BUT
If we have a word like pled to show the past tense of pleading then why don’t we use it? I notice you said ‘fed through a shredder’… why did you not say, ‘feaded through a shredder’? We say a person bled to death not bleeded to death. Where do we get these weird things? I noticed a few years (10?) that the press had forgotten all about the word ‘pled’ and now we have all forgotten it. And now they are desperately trying to make us forget the war…
Idiomatic usage. “Pleaded” was taken directly from the CNN text (click link). “Fed” was my personal usage.
Both are technically acceptable, if you’re inclined to care about these things (which I sure-as-my-Saturday-night-is-pathetic am!)
On the first day of class my civil procedure professor told us to pick one and stick with it. Using both is what makes you look… simple.