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“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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May god shave us all.
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Up yours Trebek!
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Shave my wife, I'm goin' down for the last time!
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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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I dont believe in Muphies Theory cause uts just a theory. I've done my own research and u ahoukd to.
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Hehe I remember Muphies. That Kermit always got up to shenanigans!
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😆👌 fair enough
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Menzies'es Pretty Solid Hunch
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I'm sure this comment can't go wromg.
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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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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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Could you clarify? Do you mean to say it's incomplete or actually complete?
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I meant to say that part is already a complete 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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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.
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Yes – exactly! I think that's actually the missing part here: "That's". It makes the following thing they say sound much more complete. 👍 Thank you!
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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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Whoooosh
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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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However, we all know she made a typo while criticising someone else's understanding of words
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Aka chrolling for clickbate.
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