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[Mihail]

A few years ago was the first time I heard someone says something like "Her behavior is very suspect." And I'm all like, "Bitch, suspect is a noun, so treat it like one," except only in my head. Then I ran home to my dictionary and I'm like "Bitch was right -- suspect can be an adjective," except my mom heard me and I was grounded.

My question is: why? What is the need for "suspect" to exist as an adjective? We have the perfectly usable "suspicious," allowing "suspect" to unequivocally remain a noun (with the verb being distinguished by its pronunciation). What's up with this bullsnot?

And why am I parking on my driveway and driving on the parkway?

 

[Beezy]

Nowadays, they're both used to show that someone might be gay. Or maybe that's just where I'm from.

 

[Blackace]

big, gigantic, huge, enormous are all useless!!! they mean the same thing omgwtf

 

[Mihail]

big, gigantic, huge, enormous are all useless!!! they mean the same thing omgwtf

No, they don't. They all carry different connotations -- and they don't come from the same root word.

 

[Blackace]

No, they don't. They all carry different connotations -- and they don't come from the same root word.

giant and gigantic do, should we drop one of them too?

there are a lot of words like that in English... it's part of the charm

 

[MIMIC]

His suspect behavior is suspicious.

 

[BuG]

giant and gigantic do, should we drop one of them too?

Skimming over this stupid thread I saw the first four words of your post as "giant and gigantic dildo". Colour me disappointed that this is not the case, and also that there are no pictures of said items.

 

[The Interrobanger]

I'm like "Bitch was right -- suspect can be an adjective," except my mom heard me and I was grounded.

:lol

 

[Callo Merlose]

:lol

You were taken ownership of by your mother!

 

[fallout]

And I'm all like, "Bitch, suspect is a noun, so treat it like one," except only in my head. Then I ran home to my dictionary and I'm like "Bitch was right -- suspect can be an adjective,"

This made me laugh, heh. Kudos.

 

[Bluecondor]

To me, the big difference between "suspect" and "susceptible" is that you use "suspect" to convey weakness in a general sense, while you use "susceptible" to refer to weakness in a specific sense.

For example, if you are talking about how disappointing a team's defense has performed in football, you will make statements like "The Pitt Panthers come into their game against defense with a defense that is suspect, particualrly against a high powered passing attack like Lousiville's."

"Susceptible" allows you go into greater detail. "The Pitt Panthers are susceptible to deep balls on second down because their secondary is inexperienced" or "The New Orleans defense has been suspect all year, because their defensive backs are susceptible to getting beat deep downfield."

Thsi is my two centrs on this anyway.....

 

[FoneBone]

To me, the big difference between "suspect" and "susceptible" is that you use "suspect" to convey weakness in a general sense, while you use "susceptible" to refer to weakness in a specific sense.

For example, if you are talking about how disappointing a team's defense has performed in football, you will make statements like "The Pitt Panthers come into their game against defense with a defense that is suspect, particualrly against a high powered passing attack like Lousiville's."

"Susceptible" allows you go into greater detail. "The Pitt Panthers are susceptible to deep balls on second down because their secondary is inexperienced" or "The New Orleans defense has been suspect all year, because their defensive backs are susceptible to getting beat deep downfield."

Thsi is my two centrs on this anyway.....

"Susceptible" has nothing to do with this thread, and its roots are completely separate from those of "suspect," anyway.

 

[aoi tsuki]

Then you were like "bitch we fuckin tonight bitch!!1", right?

 

[Bluecondor]

"Susceptible" has nothing to do with this thread, and its roots are completely separate from those of "suspect," anyway.

:lol

Man - no more posts for me at 1:43 AM.

Maybe I was dreaming that I was making an important or even relevant point at the time. :lol

 

[Bluecondor]

Then you were like "bitch we fuckin tonight bitch!!1", right?

:lol

Ya - but we played Halo II first, because it's like foreplay when you've found a girl who's ready to go....

 

[Bluecondor]

Oh - and just to finally make a relevant point....

You use suspicious to convey something that is questionable because of some ill will or negative intent, or because you "have a suspicion" (to convey that you have a doubt or are making an assumption about something).

Exs.

"There was a suspicious fire at 3:00 AM."

"Whenever I see the way they act, I get the suspicion that they think the rules don't apply to them."

To me - suspect is more used to convey weakness, like my aforementioned "The team's defense is suspect, because they can't stop the run."

It would be completely different, even non-sensical, if you said "The team has a suspicious defense." (unless you were talking about a team that was treacherous or played in a deceptive manner maybe).

 

[Christoff Yurievich]

:lol

You were taken ownership of by your mother!

:lol :lol

 

[Mihail]

Oh - and just to finally make a relevant point....

You use suspicious to convey something that is questionable because of some ill will or negative intent, or because you "have a suspicion" (to convey that you have a doubt or are making an assumption about something).

Exs.

"There was a suspicious fire at 3:00 AM."

"Whenever I see the way they act, I get the suspicion that they think the rules don't apply to them."

To me - suspect is more used to convey weakness, like my aforementioned "The team's defense is suspect, because they can't stop the run."

It would be completely different, even non-sensical, if you said "The team has a suspicious defense." (unless you were talking about a team that was treacherous or played in a deceptive manner maybe).

I guess I can see that. I've only heard it used to convey suspicion, like "His motives are suspect," which is why I thought that suspicious is a sufficient adjective of the same root word.

But if you can use "suspect" to mean "of questionable quality," I guess the cognitive difference is enough to justify its existence.

 

[bob_arctor]

"Ass-Rod's clutch hitting and heterosexuality is very suspect"

"I suspect Ass-Rod couldn't hit for meaning if his life depended on it"

 

[DDayton]

In practice, "suspect" tends to follow a form of 'to be' ("is suspect, are suspect, were suspect"), while "suspicious" tends to directly modify the noun ("suspicious behaviour, suspicious person"). That's not a rule, of course, but it does seem to be the common usage today.

Now I want to go research this...