AlanSmithee: Could "I was sat in a chair" be grammatical if the form  of 'sitting' is the transitive one?
Eg:
(An adult talking about a time he was 3 years old)
"At the cottage, my parents had a choice of how to seat us three kids. There was an orange chair, a blue chair, a stool, and a bench. Sister got the bench. Big brother was forced to takethe stool. As for me, I was sat on a chair, the blue one".
Or should it be  "I was seated"?

The correct form would be, "I was ensat upon yon chair, blue, both in hue and mood."

dickfreckle: One thing I don't get is why grammar nazis think that anyone cares to meticulously proofread before posting. It's a website where we tell dick and fart jokes for chrissakes. Fark all that...preview is for p*ssies. I go in dry.

Why? I'll tell you why. It is whycause if you fail to check your work prior to posting you risk turning the dick and fart jokes into duck and fort jokes which lack the punch, the joie-du-vivre, the vibrancy and essence of all that makes us human with our understanding and appreciation of penises and flatulence. Duck jokes? Marginally humorous and as Woody Allen taught, "duck" is funnier than "chicken", just as "Buick" is more funny than "Chevrolet". It's that hard "ck", which again brings us back to "dick", naturally. And a fort joke? Perhaps if you're in the Army or if you're a small child with a penis who laughs because he's hung a sign reading, "No Gerls alowed in my Fart" over the doorway to his penis fort. But generally speaking there is little humor to be gained from a fort. Farts, on the other hand, are a universal source of amusement. Even in Vonnegut's dystopian future in which we've all evolved to resemble fur seals, farts are funny. Forts, not funny.

This, citizen, is why it matters.

AngryJailhouseFistfark: AlanSmithee: Could "I was sat in a chair" be grammatical if the form  of 'sitting' is the transitive one?
Eg:
(An adult talking about a time he was 3 years old)
"At the cottage, my parents had a choice of how to seat us three kids. There was an orange chair, a blue chair, a stool, and a bench. Sister got the bench. Big brother was forced to takethe stool. As for me, I was sat on a chair, the blue one".
Or should it be  "I was seated"?

The correct form would be, "I was ensat upon yon chair, blue, both in hue and mood."

OH MOTHERfarkINGshiatASSGODDAMMIT!!! I screwed that up. Should be: "I was ensat upon yon chair, blue, both in hue and humour."

ginandbacon: here to help: ginandbacon: 10 for 10. Mother was an editor at Houghton Mifflin for most of my life.

And I bet she had a "hought mifflin". Rawr.

Better than your mother's miffled hought.

/amidoinitright?

Haughty Milf?