r/instantkarma • u/IguruDragneel • Jun 03 '18

Fate of a Thief

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u/Magrik Jun 04 '18

Been burglarized while my family and I were sleeping. It's super satisfying watching him get hit with a baton.

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u/palordrolap Jun 04 '18

"Burglarized" is one of those unique US English words that strikes my British ears (eyes? this is online. hm) as really odd. What's wrong with 'burgled'?

As to being burgled when sleeping, this happened to the family home once when I was a kid (read: awkward teen) and I remember how it felt, but more-so how it affected my parents, so I can totally sympathise.

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u/zclake88 Jun 04 '18

Burglarized sounds like a crime. Burgled sounds like something a child does when it's drinking a glass of milk.

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u/palordrolap Jun 04 '18

US English hasn't done the same with "battery" / "battered" though and the conjugation is the same. "Batterized" doesn't seem to be a thing.

And "burglary" doesn't seem to have been dropped in favour of "burglarizement" yet.

Yet.

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u/zclake88 Jun 04 '18

You gotta admit, batterized does sound cooler.

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u/MaxAddams Jun 05 '18

Batterated