Feedback Kiwiflare: Retarding to Retardation - Retardation discussion thread

[Instant_Pot_User]

Just a minor suggestion: change the phrase "DDoS retarding provided by KiwiFlare" to "DDoS retardation provided by KiwiFlare."
Retarding is a gerund/non-finite verb while retardation is a noun (hence the noun phrase "DDoS retardation"), and I think it's funnier to use the word retardation.

 

[G19]

nerd

 

[We Are The Witches]

No, that sounds retarded retarding.

 

[Stephanie Bustcakes]

It's meant to be a verb. It's providing a retarding service, using a present tense verb because it is actively doing it.

 

[A_Skellington]

This is why nobody likes English majors.

 

[JohnnyG]

Gerunds are also nouns. "I am running" (verb), "Running is fun" (noun).

I suggest "Retard retarding provided by KiwiTard", since the majority of the retarding is probably committed against retards (us) outside the occasional troontarding (DDoS).

 

[MrTroll]

"Gerund" is not a real word.

 

[datnodeking]

nigger

 

[$5.3 Million Dollars]

Torswats had a bad case of DDoS Retardation.

 

[HyperboreanRightsActivist]

Retardation provided by Kiwiflare Null

 

[DickMain]

Just a minor suggestion: change the phrase "DDoS retarding provided by KiwiFlare" to "DDoS retardation provided by KiwiFlare."
Retarding is a gerund/non-finite verb while retardation is a noun (hence the noun phrase "DDoS retardation"), and I think it's funnier to use the word retardation.

I'm not respecting your pronouns verbs, I'll use whichever forms I want.

 

[Fascist Frederick]

What about "DDoS niggering provided by KiwiFlare"?

 

[Reminmyster]

If you enter you become retarded thats why its the way it is

 

[IrishGuy088]

...

I'm retarded?

 

[Fred Jones -Traplord]

Retarding is better, retarding ddosing -> slowing down/stopping ddos. Retardation doesnt fit.

 

[Baguette Child]

Earnestly using the word gerund in conversation should be grounds for public execution.

 

[Instant_Pot_User]

This is why nobody likes English majors.

Good thing I have a linguistics degree.

It's meant to be a verb. It's providing a retarding service, using a present tense verb because it is actively doing it.

I guess I analyzed it as

{VP {NP DDoS retarding|retardation} provided {PP by {NP KiwiFlare}},

which leans more into the noun thing that gerunds do. DDoS retardation is a thing that KiwiFlare does (as it retards/is retarding DDoS attacks). I guess both work, I'm being a pedant.

 

[mindlessobserver]

Imagine this being a thing that bugs you so much you make a thread about it. Nerd.

 

[Grub]

I prefer retarding. It sounds active. Kiwiflare is retarding ddos. Ddos retardation sounds passive and weak.

 

[Instant_Pot_User]

Imagine this being a thing that bugs you so much you make a thread about it. Nerd.

Everyone needs a hobby

I prefer retarding. It sounds active. Kiwiflare is retarding ddos. Ddos retardation sounds passive and weak.

yeah but the main verb is provides and I think using one verb instead of two sounds nicer, a little pithier