Formal and patronizing is usually the language of the owner class.
Comment on furries in shambles
OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 day agoThe grammar there isn’t incorrect at all. It’s just longer and more circuitous than needed, and it sets a weird formal/aristocratic/patronizing tone.
Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
To me it just reads as someone whose native language would use the present-progressive tense for this kind of statement.
True, it’s not incorrect grammar in English. It just sounds off because we would typically use the infinitive form to discuss a need like this. That’s not necessarily the case in every language though.