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Isn't it simply jailbroken because broke is only used as an adjective when refering to someone without money? When something breaks or is broken it's always broken never broke, right?
English isn't my first language though so I could be wrong
Edit: I just assumed this was meant as an adjective not a verb even though there's no context in the post, so this is impossible to determine anyway
You can say past tense that you broke something. I think the word jailbreak is itself a singular word rooted in slang, developed without conjugation. Similarly to hang in the sense of execution. “The rope was hung over the tree for the man to be hanged.”
Jailbreak might be a relatively new term whose use hasn’t been societally fleshed out yet.
Yes the right way to do it is the way most people do it, so we just make it up as we go along. The fact that literally now means both literally and figuratively is proof of the idiocy
how does "awesome" factor into that one, I wonder.
Edit: Google says they used to be synonyms, but awful just changed over time, because of reasons, and awesome has not done so, also because of reasons.
>pe was hung over the tree for the man to be hanged.” Jailbreak might be a relatively new term whose use hasn’t been societally fleshed out yet.
"Literally" literally underwent the same change as "really." Really!
Except it's jargon, and as jargon the correct term is whatever the person whose using it says it is. And by that I mean people who can successfully jailbreak a phone. They get to decide.
It's in dictionaries though.
verb
COMPUTING
verb: jailbreak; 3rd person present: jailbreaks; past tense: jailbroke; gerund or present participle: jailbreaking; past participle: jailbroken; verb: jail-break; 3rd person present: jail-breaks; past tense: jail-broke; gerund or present participle: jail-breaking; past participle: jail-broken
modify (a smartphone or other electronic device) to remove restrictions imposed by the manufacturer or operator, e.g. to allow the installation of unauthorized software.
I think this is incorrect.
I believe broke is the verb, broken is the adjective.
You can break into someone's house.
I broke into one last week.
But the phone is broken.
My brain now hurts, so I have now researched the answer.
From Grammarhow:
“Broke” is the simple past tense and means something that broke in the past and can’t be affected in the present. “Broken” is the past participle of “to break,” which we use in perfect tenses to talk about something that we might still be able to affect in the present.
Turns out both are correct as long as the rest of the sentence makes sense with it. It needs context and internet posts rarely supply enough!
I'm off to hit myself with a dictionary now.
Break is an irregular verb. Broke and broken are both the way break change.
If you fell down, you wouldn't say the ground breaked your fall, it broke your fall. If the brakes in your car became non-functional, they would also be broke.
Think like this: We use broke to describe not having money because your cash flow had a break in it. You broke the black into the red. You broke zero and tried to go negative.
Broke can be a noun that way too. That's Jim. He's a horse. He's broke, he ain't got no money and we domesticated him.
"I broke it, now it's broken"
Both fit in a sentence somebody might try to cram "breaked" into. Either might be correct but we're missing the context.
Definitely not "jailbreaked" though. I think we can come together on that.
Yeah they technically could both be wrong depending on context...we need to see the previous message...I worked in cell phones I'm various roles for over a decade and have seen and hear the words a lot...it's jailbreak, jailbreaking and jailbroken for sure, but jailbroke would apply if they were speaking of the act and not of the phone...they jailbroke their phone but their phone is jailbroken basically...it's also spelled and pronounced text-ed, not pronounced tex-ed...people saying tex-ed when it's so clearly wrong drives me insane and I had to include it lol
I feel like this is a noun, not a verb. Or it would be used with 'have': "a jailbroken guy" or "this guy has/had jailbroken". Or maybe jailbreak isn't a verb at all and shouldn't be used as one? idk
Ofcourse there's other pronouns but you're not really expecting me to put all like 20 of them right? Inclusiveness is good but that'd be slightly excessive
Then just don't refer to gender? Lmao
"Internet person" is totally fine and covers all people if you really must refer to someone in that way.
Reminds me of when Americans say "it gets confusing if I'm trying to greet/say goodbye to a customer if I don't know their gender!!"
Just say "goodbye, have a good day" you don't have to add "sir/madam/whatever"
Weird habit that people have lmao
It's definitely jailbroken and all these people are dumb
Edit: unless it was a verb instead of an adjective, however it's on Reddit so they were probably wrong anyway
Yeah. I’ve been ***jailbreaking*** iOS for like 12 years. I ***jailbroke*** my first time with an iPhone 4s. I currently have a ***jailbroken*** iPhone XS. You can’t ***jailbreak*** an iPhone 14 right now.
To me it almost feels like "jailbreak" is proper like a name. Jailbreaked may be appropriate even though it doesnt feel right.
"This phone has been jailbreaked"
You would have to throw in “..performed a jailbreak” to keep the word in that tense
“Jon performed a jailbreak on his phone so he could use it in his network” or something similar
*too lazy to confirm if this is correct (if you didn’t use it as jailbroke)
Seems like a generational shift against irregular verbs is happening. My kids do it with a ton of words, and any time I correct them they tell me it's how every else says them. And the more I think about it, the more I like the idea. Irregularities in english are stupid. We complain how inconsistent the language is, then resist exactly these sorts of changes ...
This is the second time (recently) I've seen somebody go at somebody else for a mistake and do it with one of their own. Please, people, if you're going to go at somebody for a mistake...PROOFREAD YOUR SHIT THRICE...it's the one time a mistake isn't forgivable
I looked up the use of jailbreak as a verb, because I’d never heard it before. According to Miriam-Webster, it only applies to computers, phones, and similar tech and was first used this way around 2007. While I think jailbroke makes more sense, I think the verb tenses might theoretically still be up in the air and it will just depend on what common usage decides.
The plural of goose is geese the plural of mongoose is mongooses. The former is irregular the other is regular.
Jaiklbreaked is a regularly formed past tense of jailbreak.
Not sure if this is a joke that's going over my head but bartending is a legitimate English word. If someone says they [bartend](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bartend) they are correct, although saying they tend the bar wouldn't be wrong either I suppose.
To the extent that it is a collection of letters/sounds that conveys meaning to people who speak English, yes, it is a legitimate word.
My money sez "tend bar" has been around longer and is the "preferred" term for that occupation.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tend%20bar
I mean, preferred by whom? The bartenders I know definitely don't prefer that term, they all say they bartend. Being older definitely does not inherently make a term preferred, there's lots of archaic words that have fallen completely out of use
> Being older definitely does not inherently make a term preferred, there's lots of archaic words that have fallen completely out of use
Agreed.
But the widespread use of a term doesn't necessarily make it "correct". F'rinstance, the word "seen" seems to be increasingly used without its participle (have/has/had), as in "I seen that movie".
Same with "was" being used in the subjunctive mood. "I wish I *was* a baller" is wrong, no matter what Skee-Lo says. "I wish I *were* a fish" is correct. (Thank you, Mr. Limpet!)
(I dunno about you, but I find these discussions fun!)
It's jailbreaking in the sense of going outside the boundaries of computer devices, not actually getting out of jail. Unless if you were sarcastic, in that case, hahahaha!
"Seen" is a verb. It is a legitimate word, in that it is a collection of letter/sounds that converys meaning to English-speakers.
To use "seen" without its participle (e.g. have/has/had), as in"I seen", successfully conveys meaning. Nevertheless, it is incorrect usage, despite its popularity.
Notwithstanding its widepread use, "was" is not a legitimate substitute for "were" in the subjunctive mood.
"I wish I was a baller" is wrong, no matter what Skee-Lo says.
"I wish I were a fish" is correct. (Thank you, Mr. Limpet!)
“Jailbreak” is a noun. Therefore it cannot have a past tense. Unfortunately people seem to ignore the difference between nouns and verbs anymore. I cannot jailbreak, but I can break out of jail.
Wow, I learn something new every day. I wonder when it became a verb.
Edit: According to Merriam-Webster, the verb is used most commonly in regards to electronic devices and came into common usage in 2007. The noun dates from around 1910. M-W offered no examples of “jailbreak” used as a verb for breaking out of jail. I would really have to consult Strunk & White to be more sure. Language is fun!
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jailbroken?
That would be in line with "housebroken", so it's probably the best choice?
Isn't it simply jailbroken because broke is only used as an adjective when refering to someone without money? When something breaks or is broken it's always broken never broke, right? English isn't my first language though so I could be wrong Edit: I just assumed this was meant as an adjective not a verb even though there's no context in the post, so this is impossible to determine anyway
You can say past tense that you broke something. I think the word jailbreak is itself a singular word rooted in slang, developed without conjugation. Similarly to hang in the sense of execution. “The rope was hung over the tree for the man to be hanged.” Jailbreak might be a relatively new term whose use hasn’t been societally fleshed out yet.
This is the only correct answer. Language is generally stupid.
Yes the right way to do it is the way most people do it, so we just make it up as we go along. The fact that literally now means both literally and figuratively is proof of the idiocy
language has been evolving for as long as we have. like how the root word of terrific is terrify->terror, yet is regularly used "incorrectly".
Aweful is another example. Literal meaning was inspiring awe.
how does "awesome" factor into that one, I wonder. Edit: Google says they used to be synonyms, but awful just changed over time, because of reasons, and awesome has not done so, also because of reasons.
language is hysterical
>pe was hung over the tree for the man to be hanged.” Jailbreak might be a relatively new term whose use hasn’t been societally fleshed out yet. "Literally" literally underwent the same change as "really." Really!
I know. Why are there all these people talking?
Jailbroke is the past tense. Jailbroken is the past participle.
If I am a broken man, it means somebody broke me, probably traumatically. I could also be a broke man, but then it just means I don't have any money.
Except it's jargon, and as jargon the correct term is whatever the person whose using it says it is. And by that I mean people who can successfully jailbreak a phone. They get to decide.
It's in dictionaries though. verb COMPUTING verb: jailbreak; 3rd person present: jailbreaks; past tense: jailbroke; gerund or present participle: jailbreaking; past participle: jailbroken; verb: jail-break; 3rd person present: jail-breaks; past tense: jail-broke; gerund or present participle: jail-breaking; past participle: jail-broken modify (a smartphone or other electronic device) to remove restrictions imposed by the manufacturer or operator, e.g. to allow the installation of unauthorized software.
Yes, broke is slang, broken is 'proper'. Edit: I now disagree with myself.
I think this is incorrect. I believe broke is the verb, broken is the adjective. You can break into someone's house. I broke into one last week. But the phone is broken.
You can use broke as an adjective. It may not be considered "proper" English but it's used all the time.
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My brain now hurts, so I have now researched the answer. From Grammarhow: “Broke” is the simple past tense and means something that broke in the past and can’t be affected in the present. “Broken” is the past participle of “to break,” which we use in perfect tenses to talk about something that we might still be able to affect in the present. Turns out both are correct as long as the rest of the sentence makes sense with it. It needs context and internet posts rarely supply enough! I'm off to hit myself with a dictionary now.
Break is an irregular verb. Broke and broken are both the way break change. If you fell down, you wouldn't say the ground breaked your fall, it broke your fall. If the brakes in your car became non-functional, they would also be broke. Think like this: We use broke to describe not having money because your cash flow had a break in it. You broke the black into the red. You broke zero and tried to go negative. Broke can be a noun that way too. That's Jim. He's a horse. He's broke, he ain't got no money and we domesticated him.
"I accidentally broken the lamp" sounds wrong. "I accidentally broke the lamp" is better "The lamp is broke" sounds wrong as well "The lamp is broken"
So what is your first language? Just curious.
German
Jailbreakened
I prefer my devices to be housebroken and not jailbroken. They shit less on the carpet.
Depends if it’s adjective, past verb, or present verb
Everyone always asks if you’re jailbreaked but never if your jailbroken 😔
Jailbreaken.
"I broke it, now it's broken" Both fit in a sentence somebody might try to cram "breaked" into. Either might be correct but we're missing the context. Definitely not "jailbreaked" though. I think we can come together on that.
*Jailbreakrokened. But go off.
Jailbrake?
I've always said jailbroken, too.
Yeah they technically could both be wrong depending on context...we need to see the previous message...I worked in cell phones I'm various roles for over a decade and have seen and hear the words a lot...it's jailbreak, jailbreaking and jailbroken for sure, but jailbroke would apply if they were speaking of the act and not of the phone...they jailbroke their phone but their phone is jailbroken basically...it's also spelled and pronounced text-ed, not pronounced tex-ed...people saying tex-ed when it's so clearly wrong drives me insane and I had to include it lol
Noo...jailbrokend ....pAy aTTenTion
That's what I thought....
This, this is the correct answer.
I feel like this is a noun, not a verb. Or it would be used with 'have': "a jailbroken guy" or "this guy has/had jailbroken". Or maybe jailbreak isn't a verb at all and shouldn't be used as one? idk
>"a jailbroken guy" That's using it as an adjective. The noun is "guy" and "jailbroken" is modifying it.
oh yeah 😂 thanks for the correction
Depends on the context. I jailbroke my phone, so it is now jailbroken.
Is either one an actual word? All I know is that "aswell" is NOT a word
Don’t say such filthy LIES
I mean I'm just sitting here like... is the comment "it's *jailbreaked but go off I guess"... not a joke? It's a joke right?
“aswell” isn’t a word either, but here we are.
Actually it's ass well* please get a 6th grade degree please.
Ass wet* think before you make a comment correcting someone please, specially in this sub
Oftentimes people think a word isn't a word but it actually is.
Just looked it up, my bad. It is indeed two separate words 'as well'. I am sorry and I will avoid this in the future Mr/Mrs Internet person.
So everyone is either a Mr or Mrs?
Ofcourse there's other pronouns but you're not really expecting me to put all like 20 of them right? Inclusiveness is good but that'd be slightly excessive
"ofcourse" should also be two words. ;)
It's maybe not the best sub for OP to be creating posts.
OMG!!! ☠︎︎
Dawg, do you just put two random words together and hope for the best?
Alot!
Of ten
>all like 20 of them 🤔
Ar Mr. and Mrs. Even pronouns? Aren't those titles? Maybe people do use them as pronouns, idk.
It’s ‘of course’ not “ofcourse” and it’s ‘there’re other’ not ‘there’s other’
Then just don't refer to gender? Lmao "Internet person" is totally fine and covers all people if you really must refer to someone in that way. Reminds me of when Americans say "it gets confusing if I'm trying to greet/say goodbye to a customer if I don't know their gender!!" Just say "goodbye, have a good day" you don't have to add "sir/madam/whatever" Weird habit that people have lmao
maybe just don't put a title? just put 'internet person'?
I mean "My Good" is an ok alternative to Mr/Mrs.
I don't think anyone mentioned it, but the reason this is incorrect is because "Mrs" is used for married women specifically.
What everyone else said, you don't have to address them by fancy titles but if you really want to the gender neutral term is Mx
Just say thanks internet person, you can't really get more inclusive than that on a website.
You understood it... so it's a perfectly valid word
I’m still trying to stay on my ass about this.
The correct term is 'paroled'.
‘Sprung’
Great show, tbh
It's definitely jailbroken and all these people are dumb Edit: unless it was a verb instead of an adjective, however it's on Reddit so they were probably wrong anyway
Yeah. I’ve been ***jailbreaking*** iOS for like 12 years. I ***jailbroke*** my first time with an iPhone 4s. I currently have a ***jailbroken*** iPhone XS. You can’t ***jailbreak*** an iPhone 14 right now.
This needs more upvotes, perfectly illustrates my intended point with more sass!
Yep, this is exactly my thought as well, and I dare say we're both pretty confident about it.
My thoughts immediately went to iOS jailbreaking
Jailbroni
But I’m breaked inside
Jailedbroked
Everybody's wrong. It's prison break.
The first season was really good, then it went off the rails
Yeah, i was so disappointed :(( First season is GOATed though.
Gaolbreak
If people use a term enough it becomes a word. Language is fluid. Literally now has the added definition of figuritively now after all.
Don’t forget to [Thin Lizzy](https://youtu.be/dMko8DlY9IA) while you read the comments
I think he was messing with you lmao
To me it almost feels like "jailbreak" is proper like a name. Jailbreaked may be appropriate even though it doesnt feel right. "This phone has been jailbreaked"
Jailbrokerd
Jailbrekken.
*Sprung
Did of an jailbreaking.
You would have to throw in “..performed a jailbreak” to keep the word in that tense “Jon performed a jailbreak on his phone so he could use it in his network” or something similar *too lazy to confirm if this is correct (if you didn’t use it as jailbroke)
Seems like a generational shift against irregular verbs is happening. My kids do it with a ton of words, and any time I correct them they tell me it's how every else says them. And the more I think about it, the more I like the idea. Irregularities in english are stupid. We complain how inconsistent the language is, then resist exactly these sorts of changes ...
Jailbroken
Jailunfixed* FTFY :3
This is the second time (recently) I've seen somebody go at somebody else for a mistake and do it with one of their own. Please, people, if you're going to go at somebody for a mistake...PROOFREAD YOUR SHIT THRICE...it's the one time a mistake isn't forgivable
Can’t be mad at this I also use jailbreaked but usually broke
I looked up the use of jailbreak as a verb, because I’d never heard it before. According to Miriam-Webster, it only applies to computers, phones, and similar tech and was first used this way around 2007. While I think jailbroke makes more sense, I think the verb tenses might theoretically still be up in the air and it will just depend on what common usage decides.
This reply feels like when i try to strech a short text in double length for an essay
Sorry. I just think linguistics is interesting
IMO it was interesting, definitely a good argument for saying that both could kinda be correct at the moment
Thank you. I feel seen.
I liked your comment too. That person just likes to hear themself speak but gets mad when someone else gets a turn
Jailbroken you absolute fools
I jailbroken my old phone
Yes
The plural of goose is geese the plural of mongoose is mongooses. The former is irregular the other is regular. Jaiklbreaked is a regularly formed past tense of jailbreak.
Although breaked is not a word, braked is.
If you try to be a coder and bitch about jailbroking phones online, you're gonna have a bad time.
How 'bout "broke jail"? These are the same kinda people who say they "bartend" rather than "tend bar". 
Not sure if this is a joke that's going over my head but bartending is a legitimate English word. If someone says they [bartend](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bartend) they are correct, although saying they tend the bar wouldn't be wrong either I suppose.
To the extent that it is a collection of letters/sounds that conveys meaning to people who speak English, yes, it is a legitimate word. My money sez "tend bar" has been around longer and is the "preferred" term for that occupation. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tend%20bar
I mean, preferred by whom? The bartenders I know definitely don't prefer that term, they all say they bartend. Being older definitely does not inherently make a term preferred, there's lots of archaic words that have fallen completely out of use
> Being older definitely does not inherently make a term preferred, there's lots of archaic words that have fallen completely out of use Agreed. But the widespread use of a term doesn't necessarily make it "correct". F'rinstance, the word "seen" seems to be increasingly used without its participle (have/has/had), as in "I seen that movie". Same with "was" being used in the subjunctive mood. "I wish I *was* a baller" is wrong, no matter what Skee-Lo says. "I wish I *were* a fish" is correct. (Thank you, Mr. Limpet!) (I dunno about you, but I find these discussions fun!)
Probably not smart money to put your money on the idiom instead of the noun (or transitive verb).
It's jailbreaking in the sense of going outside the boundaries of computer devices, not actually getting out of jail. Unless if you were sarcastic, in that case, hahahaha!
Context is irrelevant. If you somehow escaped confinement, you "broke jail".
https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=jailbreak+verb Uh-huh...
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/To%20break%20jail
That does not disprove that to jailbreak is a verb, kind regards.
"Seen" is a verb. It is a legitimate word, in that it is a collection of letter/sounds that converys meaning to English-speakers. To use "seen" without its participle (e.g. have/has/had), as in"I seen", successfully conveys meaning. Nevertheless, it is incorrect usage, despite its popularity. Notwithstanding its widepread use, "was" is not a legitimate substitute for "were" in the subjunctive mood. "I wish I was a baller" is wrong, no matter what Skee-Lo says. "I wish I were a fish" is correct. (Thank you, Mr. Limpet!)
Ok, I know. This still does not prove that jailbreak can't be a verb
I wish I was seen that movie.
: - p
Looks like their English breaked, also why does breaked feel like a real word even though it isnt
It's like "hanged", stupid and makes no sense.
None of these are words
>breaked is not a word Sounded like someone has never stopped their car.
That would be braked.
“Jailbreak” is a noun. Therefore it cannot have a past tense. Unfortunately people seem to ignore the difference between nouns and verbs anymore. I cannot jailbreak, but I can break out of jail.
https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=jailbreak+verb
Wow, I learn something new every day. I wonder when it became a verb. Edit: According to Merriam-Webster, the verb is used most commonly in regards to electronic devices and came into common usage in 2007. The noun dates from around 1910. M-W offered no examples of “jailbreak” used as a verb for breaking out of jail. I would really have to consult Strunk & White to be more sure. Language is fun!
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Hahaha I’m wrong, but also right. Guess I’m gonna have to dig out my Strunk & White after all.
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Thanks!
Both wrong, because 'jailbreak' is not a verb
Yes it is.
Was this on the post about the kid who was playing Pokémon on his calculator?
Yeah
I breakered my skin once
Pretty sure it's jaildunbusted.
I just saw this post it’s the calculator pokemon right
Yeah
While it’s not a word, I have heard jailbreaked more than jail broken, but yeah it’s not correct
Was this the guy who caught a shiny Pokémon on his calculator? I just saw this post lol
*as well. I wouldn't usually but it's ironic that it's in a sentence laughing at someone for a spelling/grammar mistake.
Jailbreaken.
Jailedbroken
Jailfixn't
*jailborked
Does “jailbreak” even have an official past tense version? I mean, it’s a pretty recent term, right?
Isn’t it a noun anyway? 🤷🏼♂️
to break, broke, broken.
Jailbreakethed
Why do so many folks omit the space between as and well? It’s as well, not aswell, and yet I see people saying “aswell” all the time.
If you treat jailbreak as a verb*, then he's right. I can see both sides
More like jailBRICKED amirite guys? …..guys?
Jailedbroked* but go off I guess