Talk:Maxing

Present Continuous Form

Hey Faulkston, I would even better like to change the main article page to "to max out" since that is the correct form of the verb, and make the rest of these redirects to it. As a curious side note, I would like to make a comment on this "verb", which really isn't one, at least officially (AFAIK). Usually in English, three letter verbs are doubled up at the last letter when conjugated in present continuous (e.g. " to run" becomes "running", "to beg" becomes "begging", etc.). It logically follows that "to max", would become "maxxing".--Arminius 22:39, 28 December 2006 (PST)

Add "ing" to box and you get boxing, not boxxing. :) --Lilly 23:03, 28 December 2006 (PST)

Touché. Maybe the letter X is the exception because in Germanic languages it is already pronounced as the combination of two vowels.--Arminius 23:10, 28 December 2006 (PST)

"To max out" is not a verb; it is a verb phrase as far as I can tell. "To max" would be the infinitive form of the verb and "maxing" would then be the present participle. I'll admit that maxing is not a particular verb form that I would use for whatever reason but it is a correct form (along with maxed and maxes) according to the The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. It may be a contraction of "maximizing" which is peculiar to American English. As for the article title, whichever phrase is used as the first and thus "main" one doesn't matter so much, does it? -- Faulkston 00:02, 29 December 2006 (PST)

Not really mate. I just checked out some other articles (e.g. sailing and distilling) and they use the present continuous. For the sake of consistency, I retract my suggestion and leave it as maxing. I do not know if this is an official standard, but I would suggest that if it is not, then present continuous should be it.--Arminius 08:46, 29 December 2006 (PST)