• don@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    It’s interesting when people make their post “I do X. WHY? Reasons.” when they could just say “I do things because reasons.” The pre-asking “Why?” has always struck me as peculiar for some reason.

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      8 months ago

      It’s a shortening of “why, you might ask?”

      Imo it’s a little more “conversational” than just, “here’s what I did because this”. Might be a leftover from the quirky era.