We thought the rider fell off or something and it was going to crash. Then it turned and kept mowing. Park Roomba!

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  • @[email protected]
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    15 months ago

    Am I alone in thinking it should be “is being mowed” because “mown” is a resultant property of the grass? Like being melted and being molten. Or is it one of these things non-native speakers develop a keen intuition for to be able to spot it just to be blind-sided by native speakers not giving a fuck.

    • @feedum_sneedson
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      55 months ago

      I mowed the lawn, the lawn was mowed, has already been mowed… a freshly-mowed lawn. I’m not sure if I’d ever actually use “mown” as a conjugation of “to mow”.

      • @samus12345
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        5 months ago

        Me either, but either word is correct to use.

    • @samus12345
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      25 months ago

      “Mowed” and “mown” are both correct, but I would never use “mown”, myself.

    • Lemmy_2019
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      5 months ago

      It’s a past participle.

      e.g. “The park or meadow having been newly mown, had an air at once ornamented and natural.”

      “An 82-year-old great-grandad survived being mown down by a car”