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• victorz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fair enough, let’s have at it, Mr. “King’s English”. (God, do you even hear how insufferably pretentious that sounds?)

  Let’s start with the original comment. My edits in [brackets].

  “God safe us” - [the] irony right there[… something? “is funny”? What about the irony? You have to finish the thought.][missing comma] especially when critical of someone else’s use of an acronym[comma] perhaps one’s own grasp of the English language should be a little better!!! [Overuse of exclamation points, although one could argue the level of severity in the contents of your message…]

  God save us …. [space between “us” and the ellipsis"; and an extra period after the ellipsis]

  Next comment!

  Well then[missing comma] use this as a teaching moment and elaborate[missing comma; also another “then”? Then then then then.] then?

  I live in a country that uses the King’s English[pretentious af but nothing wrong here], not the American version so please enlighten me - [hyphen instead of en dash] I do enjoy learning. [Good, you’re learning right now.]

  But don’t say there are [“is an amount”, probably? I don’t know what the King says, but that’s what I would say] an amount of errors without even trying to quantify them….given [again, ellipsis with an extra period; also the weird use of an ellipsis here – it should be a comma] the burden of proof rests with you.

  Did you learn something?

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  • psud@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “God safe us” - [the] irony right there[… something? “is funny”? What about the irony? You have to finish the thought.]

    That clause was fine up to the missing commas. He’s pointing at the phrase and saying that’s irony right there. Perhaps you’re unfamiliar with that structure. I don’t think it’s common in all Englishes

    [hyphen instead of en dash]

    That’s pedantic. Nearly no one uses en and em dashes; if they’re typing on a physical keyboard those dashes are hard to type

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    • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Perhaps you’re unfamiliar with that structure. I don’t think it’s common in all Englishes

      I am, but it’s grammatically insufficient. Idiomatically/colloquially/slang wise, it’s fine. I understood enough to know what they mean, obviously.

      That’s pedantic. Nearly no one uses en and em dashes;

      Of course it’s pedantic. I’m going out of my way to be pedantic to show this grammar snob what it feels like to throw the first stone.

      if they’re typing on a physical keyboard those dashes are hard to type

      Skill issue. If they care enough, it’s easy to find out how. 🤷‍♂️ I use them all the time.

      Thanks for joining the fun!

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  • stephen01king@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Isn’t the first mistake simply him using the sentence to declare there is irony? How is that an incomplete sentence?

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    • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Could you clarify? Do you mean to say it’s incomplete or actually complete?

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      • stephen01king@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I meant to say that part is already a complete sentence.

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