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
I know this is way late (I'm just seeing this) but THANK YOU!!!!!! UGH- I can't stand it. It sounds awful! Like "worser" or "wronger". It also makes people sound stupid. I wish it would die; it's not clever.
ReplyDeleteThe reason people day born day goes back to the Nation of Gods and Earths, not Nas. Here is the reason it is used which I found online: "Born vs Birth. we are gods having a human experience so the human soul has always existed in the essence with God. God was not birthed and has no parent. So, to acknowledge that we are one with God, born day is the day we entered the human experience."
ReplyDeleteEducate them!
DeleteYour mother gave birth to you but when you celebrate your anniversary it is a celebration of the day that you were BORN. So on that day you celebrate your mother also.
DeleteI agree! I agree! One thing though - shouldn't the word "English" begin with a capital "E"? (Proper nouns and all that)
ReplyDeleteYou explaination is clear, but I think you were being rude (to call someone idiot just because of this). Who knows, someone you called-so just don't get it YET. Maybe he/she is a foreigner who still learn about English or learn English wrongly. Who knows, right. :)
ReplyDeleteBut really, this post is usefull. Thanks.
*so sorry because my english is bad. I still learn. English is not my mother language
yea you sound rude. like you're doing to "white-splaining" ... and don't try and correct my use of white-splaining because I'm sure you know what I mean
ReplyDeleteYou're an idots and need to do your research.
ReplyDeleteThe only idiots is the individual that wrote this post and anyone that agrees. Simple minded ppl are taking over the world, if any of you "scientists" would like to actually do research the definition of both words would EASILY tell you why folks like myself use born day instead of birth day smmfh
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DeleteFirstly, idiot* people*. Secondly, you don't have to be a fucking scientist to know the post is correct. English isn't my first language but I know "bornday" is wrong and sounds retarted.
Delete*retarded.
DeleteEnglish is not my first language but I knew it was wrong because it sounds retarded. Thank you for explaining why it is wrong.
ReplyDelete"In linguistics, an adjective is a describing word, the main syntactic role of which is to qualify a noun or noun phrase, giving more information about the object signified." born is an adjective, describing the noun, day. i use "born day" all the time in writing, but have never combined the two words into a compound word. in your explanation and mine, using the words together without making a compound word actually makes perfect sense. if someone is saying bornday/born day, you don't know if they are combining the words into a compound word or not, so... "sit down, be humble"
ReplyDeleteTo all you boring, stick up the ass grammar Nazis. Haven't you ever heard of poetic license. If not, look it up. That's how Nas was using the term. Get over yourselves and find something better to do with your time.
ReplyDelete😋😋😋 I personally hate the fucking word... But used according to preference. .. Article was entertaining
ReplyDeleteSome of us use the word born in place of birthday because it reminds us “when you were born you had to have a “Birth” Certificate that had to be signed by the doctors because that's where the Ship is tied to the Dock. So, the doctor signs your Birth certificate. Why? Because you came down out of your mother's water. You came down her “birth” canal. You are a Maritime Admiralty product; therefore, your Birth Certificate was signed by your mother, and where your mother signed on the Birth Certificate, it does not say “Parent” or “Mother”, it says “Informant.” Your mother was informing the bank that she had just produced another product to be bought and sold.
ReplyDeleteReclaim Your Sovereignty by David E. Robinson
Great argument. I agree. I vote for Birthday. One minor correction, so that no one dismisses your validity on a technicality... Words that describe verbs are adverbs, not adjectives.
ReplyDeleteThis comment is late. I just came across this. Here’s your answer Mr. philosophy. The reason you are hearing the word is because as human beings especially indigenous people who were kidnapped and brought to an unfamiliar land and stripped of there heritage, culture and birthrights. The group of people as western civilization call (BLACK) or “African Americans” We are awakening and are studying we are beginning to remember who we are. We are “Moors” in short…. We say bornday because we can not be birthed. To be birth suggests newly arrived. We are energy we can not arrive because we have always been here. Energy cannot be created nor destroyed. Bornday may not be correct grammar, just like Nas were not lexicographers, We are simply trying to embracing our magnificence. LH
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