I have never, ever heard anyone say "I have to take an exam today" or "I took an exam today". That just doesn't make any sense at all. It's nice that you took an exam. Where did you take it? Do you still have it?
I have heard "I have to write an exam today" and "I wrote an exam today" hundreds of times.
For where you live, that may make sense. Yet, on these forums we speak American. And in American, the term is 'took'.
Apparently, in our great neighbor to the north, they not only have different terminology for test-taking, but their inequality symbols are reversed!
Originally posted by: Tick
Originally posted by: BigToque
When speaking American, to write an exam is to create an exam, for others to take. We take an exam when we fill in a test someone else has created for us.
There is no language called "American". It's "English". I'll just lump "American" with "Ebonics". Just don't try to pass it off as English.
Stuff it.
Also, that is still irrelevant, because on these forums, we still speak AMERICAN not Canadian.
Originally posted by: BigToque
Originally posted by: Tick
Originally posted by: BigToque
When speaking American, to write an exam is to create an exam, for others to take. We take an exam when we fill in a test someone else has created for us.
There is no language called "American". It's "English". I'll just lump "American" with "Ebonics". Just don't try to pass it off as English.
American is a dialect, and it's the dialect of English that most people who speak English speak. Ebonics is a different dialect, and one that few people speak. Most people in other countries that learn English learn the American variety.
Wouldn't it be more accurate to state that you "wrote exam answers" today? Let me ask you this, what does the person that actually wrote down the questions on the exam do? Surely they didn't also write the exam, as that would cause confusion. Did they make an exam?
We "take" many things which doesn't mean we took them somewhere or posses them. For example, we take medication, we 'take our time', we take the highway on the way to work, etc.
Are you familiar with the concept that words can have different meanings in different context?
What part of canada are you from? I have lots of friends in Canada and have never heard anyone say "Write a test" when they meant "Take a test."
Do you say "I need to take a dump" ? If so, then by your standard, where are you taking your dump to?
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