• Mr_Blott@feddit.uk
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            21 days ago

            Nikki up there was lampooning me by suggesting that there was nothing wrong with missing a “couple words now and then” in order to humorously goad me for my previous statement about missing the word “of” in front of the word “couple”

            My riposte, as dull as it were, was to insinuate that they’d used the wrong “then/than”, thus harking back to the original subject of the admittedly pointless comment chain

            But well done you for spotting the deliberate error, and my condolences for the difficulties you must encounter daily with your reading comprehension 😊

            • whoknewr@lemmy.today
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              16 days ago

              I stand corrected. I apologize for not paying more attention towards usernames, assuming that you’re a completely different entity and making that dumb remark.

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      22 days ago

      Yeah and people who say “could of” instead of “could have”. Writing is not just mimicking sounds you make out loud but they don’t seem to know it

    • Nelots@lemm.ee
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      22 days ago

      Direct correlation between

      There’s a certain irony in complaining about improper grammar while speaking in fragmented sentences. Why is it bad to omit “of” but not “There’s a” like you did?

      LaNgUagE iS alWAyS evolving

      It is.