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FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca to Shitty Ask Lemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 months ago

What grammatical law do you refuse to obey?

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What grammatical law do you refuse to obey?

FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca to Shitty Ask Lemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 months ago
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  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Semicolons… what are they? What is their purpose? To wink at people.

    ;-)

  • twice_hatch@midwest.social
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    Sometimes I dangle a participle way out there

  • Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    “Putting punctuation before the quotation mark,” is stupid.

    • ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world
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      Yes. As a programmer, that always felt like it would be a syntax error.

      • Ephera@lemmy.ml
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        2 months ago

        I, too, am a programmer. 😅

        I don’t think, it’s really a rule, but a colleague and I also independently decided to put two dots when a sentence ends on etc…

        • AZERTY@feddit.nl
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          You’re very liberal with those commas buddy.

  • unmagical@lemmy.ml
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    I definitely fuck with “ain’t” and “y’all” more ‘n teach’ would’ve liked, but the funnest is multiple contractions like “y’all’ll” or “y’alln’t.”

    • silasmariner@programming.dev
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      2 months ago

      Y’all’d’ve upset some teachers there

  • occupant483@lemmy.ml
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    deleted by creator

  • Jimbabwe@lemmy.world
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    They Don’t Think It Be Like It Is But It Do

    • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      It do stranger… it do.

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
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    I will continue to cheerfully split infinitives for the rest of my life.

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    deleted by creator

  • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works
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    It’s my sentence, and I’ll fragment it if I damn well please!

  • A7thStone@lemmy.world
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    Ending sentences in a preposition.

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      You mean, “Using prepositions to end sentences with.”

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    Putting punctuation marks in the quotes at the end of the sentence, when the punctuation is clearly in the scope of the sentence itself and not part of the quote.

    Imagine if you wrote code like that:

    string x = "Hi this is some text;"
    
    string[] y = ["Never," "gonna," "give," "you," "up"];
    

    And starting a sentence with “and”. You do it in speech all the time why not writing if you’re trying to sound “casual”?

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