I’ve known a few people who’ve adopted the word “bornday” into their vocabulary, I always cringed. I recently heard a woman in the store use this “word” so confidently as if she was some sort of english savant whose literary skills have ascended us all… for me, this was the straw that broke the camel’s back
…here’s to you, random idiot woman…
“BORNDAY” - this is retarded (*Gasp!! The “R”
word…pshhh, get over it)...I know a few people who retain this unnecessary
train of thought and it's just way too excessive for NO reason....
…Now, for you hip hop savvy people who are aware
of Nas’ use of born day in first line of the second verse of the track Life's A B*tch, i
will address you with the following: Please stop, he’s a rapper, no need to
look to him as a port of salvation in this already choppy sea of an argument.
His purpose is to entertain, not speak correct english. (please note that Nas
is one of my favorite rappers but wrong is wrong)…onward…
Birthday is used because the word birth can be
used as a noun AND a verb. People who think like the idiot woman who stated the
initial comment are under the impression that it is exclusively a verb (whether
they know it or not). Born, however, is exclusively an adjective (describes
words). Yes, born can be used as a verb (mostly in idioms); as a verb it's the
past participle of the word bear (verb, as in to bear a child), but in every
instance born is describing an action (adjective)....
When celebrating the day of one's birth the
emphasis is on THE DAY. Day is a noun; pairing birth (noun tense) and day makes
the perfect compound word birth + day. This compound noun word works
grammatically in every instance in the english language. The imaginary,
infamous "bornday" is incorrect because it fails grammatically. Bornday
is not a thing because it's not a noun and it wouldn't be "bornday"
it would be "born day" (two words, because one is an adj. and the
other is a noun). The reason BIRTHDAY
works is because it's the day one was BIRTHED (v. past participle) into the
world
....Side note, (for the clowns who argue, “but a
mother gives birth and a child is born, so it's the child's born day", yes, i once heard a hair hat try to legitimize that nonsense -_- ) ---> a mother GIVES birth, it's not
her birth, therefore if you want to refer to the birth as in being hers, since she
is the mother, then it would be referred to as her gave-birth day. Not simply
HER birthday because she gave birth (a noun), it wasn't hers, she gave it to her
child. Therefore that thinking is just plain silly.....
Back to what i was saying - every use of the word
birthday or birth stays within the same noun/verb relationship...born does not,
born is a descriptive word, not a thing (noun) and therefore complicates english
when trying to replace birthday as a thing (noun). If you would want to use
born as a prefix for the means of celebrating ones birth you would always and
only be referring to it as an adjective and in the past tense, which is wrong
because even though the actual day when we all emerged from the womb was in
fact in the past, the DAY we celebrate each year is in the present tense
therefore requiring a noun...therefore BIRTHDAY is the appropriate word to use!!
p.s. thinking of birth in only a verb tense shows
how selfish SOME (I said some) women
can be (mainly hair hats), yes YOU gave birth but it was also THE birth of your child...people who
speak this way are mindless…you’re not lyrically creative, you’re not trendy,
you’re not cool, you’re not special… no reason to "take on the world"
and challenge english because YOU do not understand nouns, verbs, and adjectives
References: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/born
