I wrote an exam today...

[Playmaker]

I'm American and I hear both. I just heard someone say "I write the LSAT in June," actually.

I think "write" is traditional and "take" is dumbed down Americanese. Community colleges ftw.

 

[imported_LoKe]

"I wrote an exam" -> I wrote the questions for an exam.
"I took an exam" -> I answered the questions for an exam.

 

[Garet Jax]

Originally posted by: purbeast0
lol @ bigtoque being owned like 5000 times in this thread.

5001 if you consider the exam he took/wrote.

 

[MrDudeMan]

Originally posted by: Playmaker
I'm American and I hear both. I just heard someone say "I write the LSAT in June," actually.

I think "write" is traditional and "take" is dumbed down Americanese. Community colleges ftw.

i dont know how to respond to this sort of stupidity. what on earth does a community college have to do with this? you sound like a huge moron for even saying that.

i write a test today...say that to yourself. i cant fathom that making sense to anyone in any context. even with cultural differences, that still doesnt make sense. also, saying you are going to take a dump makes no sense either. i always say im going to leave a dump.

 

[cKGunslinger]

Originally posted by: Playmaker
I'm American and I hear both. I just heard someone say "I write the LSAT in June," actually.

I think "write" is traditional and "take" is dumbed down Americanese. Community colleges ftw.

WTF?

 

[Lonyo]

"You 'had' an exam today."
"I 'have' exams in May", or "I've 'got' exams (coming up in) May."

Everyone wins

 

[Playmaker]

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan

Originally posted by: Playmaker
I'm American and I hear both. I just heard someone say "I write the LSAT in June," actually.

I think "write" is traditional and "take" is dumbed down Americanese. Community colleges ftw.

i dont know how to respond to this sort of stupidity. what on earth does a community college have to do with this? you sound like a huge moron for even saying that.

i write a test today...say that to yourself. i cant fathom that making sense to anyone in any context. even with cultural differences, that still doesnt make sense. also, saying you are going to take a dump makes no sense either. i always say im going to leave a dump.

Haha, I thought that would be contentious.

Another way to look at it...Discounting vocational majors with technical questions and second-rate schools with multiple choice tests, most collge curriculums test in essay form. Hence, writing a test.

 

[cjmtfd102401]

Originally posted by: jagec
You can't pass an exam that you wrote yourself?:laugh:

1. What is your favorite color?

"...I don't....I DON'T REMEMBER!!"

LOL

 

[aswedc]

I would agree that "wrote" is the more formal and traditional way of putting it.

 

[TuxDave]

Originally posted by: Playmaker
I'm American and I hear both. I just heard someone say "I write the LSAT in June," actually.

I think "write" is traditional and "take" is dumbed down Americanese. Community colleges ftw.

Let me guess, you drink POP too.

 

[dym]

lol, yay for the wrote!!!

 

[mercanucaribe]

Originally posted by: Playmaker
I'm American and I hear both. I just heard someone say "I write the LSAT in June," actually.

I think "write" is traditional and "take" is dumbed down Americanese. Community colleges ftw.

I have never heard someone say that he "wrote" an exam and meant that he took it.

 

[slayer202]

i couldnt get past 2 pages in this thread. OP, you are stupid i wrote an exam makes no sense, unless you are creating it. i suppose taking one doesn't either, but it makes more sense than writing one.

 

[MrDudeMan]

Originally posted by: Playmaker

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan

Originally posted by: Playmaker
I'm American and I hear both. I just heard someone say "I write the LSAT in June," actually.

I think "write" is traditional and "take" is dumbed down Americanese. Community colleges ftw.

i dont know how to respond to this sort of stupidity. what on earth does a community college have to do with this? you sound like a huge moron for even saying that.

i write a test today...say that to yourself. i cant fathom that making sense to anyone in any context. even with cultural differences, that still doesnt make sense. also, saying you are going to take a dump makes no sense either. i always say im going to leave a dump.

Haha, I thought that would be contentious.

Another way to look at it...Discounting vocational majors with technical questions and second-rate schools with multiple choice tests, most collge curriculums test in essay form. Hence, writing a test.

that doesnt make sense though. writing a test means you are writing the actual test, or making the test. writing a test is analogous to writing a paper. if you write a paper, you are the only physically writing the paper. so if you write a test, then you are physically writing the test, not answering it.

 

[shoRunner]

yeah, i'm not sure what the discussing here is, but if you are the one being graded on the exam you are "taking" it, if you are the one give and creating the exam you are "writing." there is no ambiguity.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: aswedc
I would agree that "wrote" is the more formal and traditional way of putting it.

"Writing" an exam is "traditional" in the same way that "olde" is traditional...it just looks wrong to the modern reader!

 

[Goosemaster]

vernacular can take the place of technically correct grammmmmmmmmerearare




You were handed an exam, or took it, forcibly perhap, or not, and completed it, or not.

Seeing as how most situations in which you are handed or take an exam involve an examination and your attempt at completing the exam, fruitful or otherwise, it is indeed acceptable to use vernacular to state something that requires assumption on behalf of the other part....


and it is acceptable for me to use run-on sentences because I am a GROWN-UP.




Don't worry son, you'll understand when you get older...

 

[Goosemaster]

writing an exam is the modern day equivalent of creating or formulating or writing up an exam.....

without being specific your verb relates only to the noun in question, and since that is not correct modern day vernacular of any kind (maybe 'Canadian' but not sure, eh?), it does in fact reflect on on that noun.

Therefore, you wrote and exam, as in you took part in drafting a or writing up an exam.

To be correct, you should have said that you wrote the ANSWERS on or for an exam....


and from the looks, of it, the WRONG answers

 

[Goosemaster]

<---jsut realized how much of a prick he looks like

 

[JayHu]

It's alright BigToque, I'm form canada too, and I say 'wrote an exam today' too. Actually the exam I wrote/took yesterday left me in a similar situation to yours.

It's definitely a canadian thing.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: JayHu
It's alright BigToque, I'm form canada too, and I say 'wrote an exam today' too. Actually the exam I wrote/took yesterday left me in a similar situation to yours.

It's definitely a canadian thing.

<---fvkign hates mayanoise and cheese sandwhiches




MAYONAISE AND CHEESE NEED FRIENDS ON A SANDWHICH...THEY ARE TOO LONEY TOGETHER AND MAYBE I'M JSUT BEING MAYOPHOBIC BUT I DON'T LIKE THEIR KIND HANGING OUT OTGETHER...ALONE....ALTHOUGH ORGIES INVOLVING A VARIETY OF MEATS ARE AACEPTABLE....

 

[Inspector Jihad]

they say it like that in india too. apparantly most people are two stupid too understand that we use take in a different context as to what it means, and he's doing the same with wrote.

 

[dawks]

I'm also on the side of 'wrote'. Possibly because I am also from Canada eh?

But when you look at it technically, 'took' is a bad word. Like BigTouqe says, where did you take it? Home? Are you going to keep it? Usually you need to had it in before leaving. You're not allow to 'take' it out of the room. 'Writing' and exam is a better word for participating in the examination. I'm 'writing' the exam, I'm not 'taking' it. And 'creating' an exam might be better then 'writing' it for those who create it.

 

[AdamSnow]

Another Canadian here, and I have wrote many exams in the past, and I did not create them...

 

[BigToque]

I'm making a poll!