Poll: Help to end this debate...

[Mr_spamamam]

i dont think that using thing makes sense in the sentence. i would say think

 

[setsunafseiei]

The latter

 

[patronscorn_v1legacy]

i dont think that using thing makes sense in the sentence. i would say think

Hope you were kidding.

Using thinK wouldn't make sence! If it were it would be.
"If you think you'r going out tonight you got another thought coming."

In my opinion

 

[RagnorakTres]

It's thing. Think is a verb, it can't be an object in a sentence. Thing is a noun, it can be an object.

But "to think" could be nouned, couldn't it? For instance, "I sat down and had a think." meaning (in a more common phraseology) "I sat down and thought about it for a bit." Couldn't "think" be a verb and a noun? (Yes I have heard several people say that before, if it's wrong, I wonder if it's just a midwestern America figure of speech.)
NOTE: I do think that it is thing, just wondering about the possibility of them both being grammatically correct.

 

[Gamine]

lol..english language will not kill us o!!

I, thing, therefore i am

I think, therefore i am

Both correct!

 

[Keewa]

Thing

 

[anaphysik]

My girlfriend has a habit of mispronouncing "ing" endings as "ink", which seems to be shared by her friends, but she is aware of the correct spelling, I'd never encountered it before her though...

well, [γ] and [k] are very related linguistically, like [d] and [t] or and [p]. the latter in each pair is the voiceless version of the sound (frex, [k] is the voiceless velar plosive, whereas [γ] is the voiced version). German, for example, often changes the sound of these consonants from voiced to voiceless (or adds the voiceless sound) at the end of words - "Hund" is pronounced like 'hundt.' So it's not as if the mispronunciation isn't grounded in linguistics.


My personal mispronunciation? You know how people always forget the 'n' in the middle of words like environment and government? Well I never forget that - instead I forget that there isn't an 'n' in the middle of requirenment.

 

[Jamash]

Did you know that John Carpenter's The Think was a remake of The Think From Another World?

 

[Mr_spamamam]

[quote="patronscorn" post="18.98065.1520864
Using thinK wouldn't make sence! If it were it would be.
"If you think you'r going out tonight you got another thought coming."

In my opinion[/quote]

but that in its self makes a better sentence that " you thought you were going out tonight, but you have another thing coming"

 

[Clashero]

Think, being a verb, cannot be used as an object. End of discussion.

 

[Andalusa]

Another thing coming.

 

[EeveeElectro]

I used to think it was thing until I read somewhere in a book that said think, but it confused me so I stuck with thing.

my mum used to say thing, or think, I'm not sure. I think it's because of the Bradford accent.

Wow, I'm confuzzled.

 

[kaziard]

.....wait a sec, before we go onto the poll, your whole office sat around and took a poll over thing or think is the proper terminology.....was the tv broken or something? because that sounds pretty damn boring.




its thing anyway

 

[Limasol]

Surely the whole point of the quote is to say that what you think now will be replaced by another think brought about by clever debate or a fist. Another thing coming actually makes the phrase meaningless.

 

[Hookman]

ThinG, I've never heard anyone say thinK in that context.

 

[mackemsniper]

Of course 'think' can be used as a noun, anyone who thinks otherwise needs to read more. 'I'll have a think about it' is one example. This is the beauty of English - flexibility.

Although I do obviously know that the correct word is 'thing' in this context.

 

[Danny Ocean]

Thing

Although people saying excape instead of escape annoys me more.

 

[Spaggiari]

"Thing". I wasn't even aware that you could use "think"

You can't. It's an error that people seem to think is correct speech.

This man is a gentleman and a scholar. Heed his wisdom for within it is contained your salvation.

How can anyone possibly think that a transitive verb fits at that point in the sentence. Upon reading the original post and realizing that this debate actually exists, I once again found myself losing all faith in mankind.

If anyone needs me I'll be plotting the ultimate downfall of this stupid species.

 

[Spaggiari]

NO!

My brothers, behold!

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/think%5B2%5D

Apparently this stupid phrase IS formally recognized. Have a look at the example of the use of "think" as a noun given by merriam-webster.

Weep my brothers, this is indeed a dark day.

 

[mackemsniper]

'Think' can be both intransitive and transitive.

'I think' and 'I think him to be stupid.'

Whoever originally said that 'think' *couldn't* be used as a noun, needs to read that dictionary again.

A similar example would be 'mind', which is both a noun and two verbs (whence it originally came).