[Dixielandjazz] language usage - "sprung"

[Charlie Hooks]

on 2/12/03 4:56 PM, Bill Gunter at jazzboard at hotmail.com wrote:

> "He sprung on the DJML his advice for dealing with the virus problem."

Simplicity itself.  If he speaks in the simple past tense, then he speaks in
the simple past tense: "sprang."  No question about it.

I'm sorry, but what's the problem here?  Why is this (seemingly) so
difficult for contemporary writers?  It never has been in the past.

Can it be simply that no one any longer teaches the declinsion of verbs?
What the hell ARE they teaching now?

Charlie