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    79 hours ago

    *earnestness*

    cough

    • @glimse
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      79 hours ago

      Well, they never claimed to have a degree in English

    • @[email protected]
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      -17 hours ago

      And while we’re on it: “I had a man tell me…”

      So this dude didn’t tell you this on their own, but instead you made them tell you this?

      • @[email protected]
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        97 hours ago

        “I had a [noun] [verb]” is a perfectly fine colloquialism for “a [noun] [verbed] (in a way that affected me).” It’s very common in the parts of the US I’ve lived in, at least.

        • @[email protected]
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          27 hours ago

          Hmm yeah. I was looking at it from a narrow perspective that didn’t take popularity into account. Good point. Americans basically set the standards for the English language in the modern era, so that way would be the correct way to go about it nowadays wouldn’t it?