Only race cars should burnout

Re:Only race cars should burnout by mlevental on Monday September 02, 2019 @01:20PM (#20860520)

I don't know about the others but to burn out as the correct verb and to burnout as the incorrect verb mean two different things. I'm pretty sure this exactly the same phenomenon that gives us things like "to Google" where Google is a noun.

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Re:Only race cars should burnout by ebg13 on Monday September 02, 2019 @08:42PM (#20862821)

> but to burn out as the correct verb and to burnout as the incorrect verb mean two different things

They don't, though.

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Re:Only race cars should burnout by mlevental on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @11:31AM (#20867511)

sorry i haven't seen many race cars burn out like candles or burn out like overworked employees. i have seen many though perform burnouts where they warm up the tires to increase how sticky they are.

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Re:Only race cars should burnout by ebg13 on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @12:39AM (#20874038)

> i haven't seen many race cars burn out like candles

I think you're getting confused by ommitted implied words. When a race car burns out, it is burning out its tires not itself.

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Re:Only race cars should burnout by stiglitz on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @09:09PM (#20873058)

Yes, it’s correct to say that they “perform burnouts,” because “burnout” is being used there as a noun.

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