What grammatical law do you refuse to obey?

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15 Comments

unmagical@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 318d (1 reply)

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 · 10 pts · 318d

Y'all'd've upset some teachers there

Nemo@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 318d

I will continue to cheerfully split infinitives for the rest of my life.

Ephera@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 317d (3 replies)

"Putting punctuation before the quotation mark," is stupid.

ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 317d (2 replies)

Yes. As a programmer, that always felt like it would be a syntax error.

Ephera@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 317d (1 reply)

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 · 2 pts · 317d

You're very liberal with those commas buddy.

twice_hatch@midwest.social · 5 pts · 318d

Sometimes I dangle a participle way out there

Jimbabwe@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 318d (1 reply)

They Don't Think It Be Like It Is But It Do

UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 317d

It do stranger... it do.

UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 317d

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

;-)

Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 317d

It's my sentence, and I'll fragment it if I damn well please!

HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 317d

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"?

A7thStone@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 317d (1 reply)

Ending sentences in a preposition.

jerkface@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 317d

You mean, "Using prepositions to end sentences with."

toomanypancakes@piefed.world · 2 pts · 318d
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occupant483@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 318d
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