Paras, you made a fundamental mistake in conjugation. And to address your question of tenses, like I said- I called it the "I-don't-know-what-tense" for a reason. But now that I think about it, it's not so much a tense as it is a conjugation based upon a point-of-reference. For example:

"I eat food." versus
"He eats food."

Notice the extra 's'?

Therefore your sentence "man, I sure hauls jet when I need to" is gramatically incorrect as speaking in the first person does not require that 's'. Your sentence should have been "man, I sure haul jet when I need to".

However, the sentence "man, that Grand Arms Panzer sure hauls jet when it needs to" remains acceptable.

Though on further inspection of your message, I'm afraid I might have to retract my initial rule of not adding the "ing" suffix. Your sentence "Then again, what do I know about haul jetting?" is not correct, but I cannot think of any conjugation more appropriate in that context than "hauling jet". In which case, I guess Eric was technically correct in the first place... but I would still recommend keeping it at 2-syllables when possible.

Man, this shit is complicated.

"hauls jet"

Isn't this a conjugation in the context you've used ("man, that Grand Arms Panzer sure hauls jet when it needs to."), not a different tense? Unless "man, I sure hauls jet when I need to" makes sense in a different way than "I needs me some betel nuts".

Then again, what do I know about haul jetting?



Oh, and a follow-up to the Peter McKay situation (this is breaking news, people!! It's almost as big as the Runaway Bride!!), from Harper's Response:

Harper said Stronach's fellow MPs "are feeling quite devastated, quite betrayed by this" – especially Peter MacKay, who has been romantically involved with Stronach for about six months.

"I think Peter's taken this pretty badly, as you can imagine."

So the sugar-mama of canadian politics is a switch-hitter eh?



At 39, she's still lookin pretty good. Being a multimillionaire doesn't make her any less attractive either. But seriously, who the FUCK has teeth that nice???

I'm pretty sure he's referring to the Julie who I (and presumably Eric as well) have met through Clark and Mary. If this is the case, you'll notice he said "message for Mary and subsequently Julie", which means NO, she presumably does not lurk here. But rather, Mary is to pass on the message.

But I could be wrong...

Who says Canadian politics are predictable??

Belinda Stronach, who ran for the leadership of the Conservative party in early 2004, has crossed the floor to the Liberal party and will sit in Paul Martin's cabinet.

Or a lurker that Ng knows.

Obviously a random lurker.

Who's Julie?

nite.

I thoroughly applaud and commend anyone using the futurolinguistic* phrase "haul jet" especially at such an appropriate time as now (nearing the release of Star Wars episode III). Therefore, I hereby award Eric a meritous 10 points. However, since I am the only person to have used the phrase regularly (as far as I know) in real-life since it first appeared in the Star Wars National Public Radio dramatizations (episode 7), I think it only appropriate that I explain the acceptable forms of conjugation.

Personally I think "hauling jet" doesn't sound checkmate enough (the main problem being that it turns the phrase into 3-syllables instead of 2). I would say the tense should simply remain in the present-tense form of conjugation which would be "haul jet". In which case I'd change "...before hauling jet..." to "...before they haul jet...".

Here are the appropriate conjugations: