• peanutyam@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    “God safe us” - irony right there especially when critical of someone else’s use of an acronym perhaps one’s own grasp of the English language should be a little better!!!

    God save us ….

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      6 days ago

      There’s no formal rule, but adjectives can function as verbs in day to day English. <Subject> <adjective> <object> can mean the same thing as <subject> make <object> <adjective>.

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      7 days ago

      The amount of grammatical mistakes in your own comment is pretty ironic as well.

      Muphry’s Law strikes again.

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        Excuse me, it’s Muphry’s Theory. It hasn’t been proven enough to be a scientific law.

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          7 days ago

          Care to elaborate? I may have missed a comma here or there, but what else was wrong?

          I mean your own spelling is rather atrocious - especially when devices tend to have a spell check; “Muphry”? Is he a distant cousin of Murphy perchance?

          Oh and I use the Kings English here in my country, not “US English” ……

          Oh my word, this was embarrassing for you. 😂 My spelling was absolutely perfect, you shmuck. No wonder you deleted it before I even saw the reply in my inbox.

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            Hardly embarrassing - you don’t seem to understand light hearted banter clearly….yes I was playing on Murphy/Muphry.

            Geez straight to name calling though - classy 🙄

            Have a nice life.

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              You’re right. The schmuck name calling was perhaps a bit harsh on you.

              You were “playing” on Murphy/Muphry? What does that mean? It seems like you just didn’t know Muphry’s Law was a thing, and you tried to hang me for “misspelling” it, then you realized what it is and deleted the comment. But maybe I’m just assuming. 🤷‍♂️

              I don’t know if you’re bantering, perhaps you are. I just have a hobby of shitting on people’s grammar that complain about other people’s grammar. It’s this Robin Hood type of feeling I get. I’m probably sick or something.

              Take care!

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        Well then use this as a teaching moment and elaborate then?

        I live in a country that uses the King’s English, not the American version so please enlighten me - I do enjoy learning.

        But don’t say there are an amount of errors without even trying to quantify them….given the burden of proof rests with you.

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          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[missing comma] 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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            “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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              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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            6 days 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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                  Now, I’m not as much of a grammar nerd as I’d like to be, but from what I understand, “irony right there” isn’t a complete sentence, or barely even a complete clause. It’s just a few words that should be part of a clause.

                  Maybe someone could fill in the grammatical details here, or prove me wrong.

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                    6 days ago

                    I guess if he wrote “That’s irony right there”, it would be easier to consider it a complete sentence, so maybe you’re right.