• Victor@lemmy.world
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    3 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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      3 days ago

      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.

      • Victor@lemmy.world
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        2 days 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?

        • stephen01king@lemmy.zip
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          2 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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                1 day ago

                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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                  1 day 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.

    • hperrin@lemmy.ca
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      3 days ago

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