Nice clean shoes

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• seSvxR3ull7LHaEZFIjM@feddit.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If he only said “I cleaned my shoes”, they could be dirty again. Now you know the difference between present perfect and simple past. English grammar, it’s weird (but every language’s is, to be fair).

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  • stoicmaverick@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t even get me started on whoever decided that through, trough, and though, don’t rhyme, but pony and Bologna do. I bet he was a colonel who kept a journal… Asshole…

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    • seSvxR3ull7LHaEZFIjM@feddit.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      To be pedantic that’s not grammar but orthography (which in English is even weirder). English is just a mutant amalgamation of Germanic, Romance and Celtic languages and man, it shows.

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  • stoicmaverick@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’re clearly a bit of a fellow word nerd. Do you have any feelings about the fact that none of that matters anymore if we all just agree that it doesn’t, which one could have an easy time arguing that we have? Sometimes, after spending a rousing five minutes explaining the MOST correct pluralization of ‘octopus’, the only answer I can give to the inevitable question of “why does it matter?” Is “it doesn’t”.

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    • Cort@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you were trying to describe a mess of cables how would you use octopus in an adjective form?

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    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      All collective nouns should be replaced with the word “group”.

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    • seSvxR3ull7LHaEZFIjM@feddit.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t know if it “matters”, and I’m not a prescriptivist who wants to tell others how to talk, but it’s interesting.

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• stoicmaverick@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not necessarily true. I just cleaned my bedroom, and it’s still fucked up.

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  • seSvxR3ull7LHaEZFIjM@feddit.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But have you cleaned your bedroom or did you only clean it?

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• saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve cleaned my shoes ≠ His shoes are clean now.

  The only thing linking the two statements are lines drawn from the shows, not language.

  But with arms that short and legs so long, I get his expression of great accomplishment.

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• remotedev@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Right after he cleaned his shoes:

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