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No, you didn’t “reach out”, you CONTACTED them
Cerebus:
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--- Quote from: Cerebus on September 19, 2021, 01:44:42 am ---
--- Quote from: Alex Eisenhut on September 19, 2021, 01:13:53 am ---Of course, you didn't "contact" anyone either since you didn't literally touch them. You wrote them.
I mean if you're going to electrodacus levels of pedantry.
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No, if you "wrote them" that would imply they were either a piece of literary fiction or computer software - those are the only ways that I can imagine one could have "written" a person, either as a character, or as a simulation (Like the bot that ends all its 'questions' on here with "I am sure you must agree"). I believe you mean "wrote to them". >:D
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Precisely. The world has become polluted by American dumb dumb language.
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I don't think you grasp the difference between having a bit of fun with someone - Alex was being wryly pedantic, so I was wryly pendantic back - and downright insulting them. Alex is a Canadian, eh. Speaking as if he was American is tantamount to a declaration of war. :)
Oh, and you're probably about to be visited by the wrath of he-who-shall-not-be-named (he studied linguistics, don'tcha know), who as an American ex-patriate has the expat's fervour for all things related to the place he doesn't want to live any more, and takes great exception to any claims that English is the language of the English and just perhaps they have first dibs on it. Expect tedious arguments from authority about vowel shifts and the like.
As far as I can tell the only bloke wot still speaks the Queen's English proper like is me innit, and 'er up in the Palace obviously. Goes wivout sayin' that bit does, don' it?
TimFox:
--- Quote from: Cerebus on September 19, 2021, 01:44:42 am ---
--- Quote from: Alex Eisenhut on September 19, 2021, 01:13:53 am ---Of course, you didn't "contact" anyone either since you didn't literally touch them. You wrote them.
I mean if you're going to electrodacus levels of pedantry.
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No, if you "wrote them" that would imply they were either a piece of literary fiction or computer software - those are the only ways that I can imagine one could have "written" a person, either as a character, or as a simulation (Like the bot that ends all its 'questions' on here with "I am sure you must agree"). I believe you mean "wrote to them". >:D
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"Wrote to them" is correct. However, Oxford accepts "wrote them" as acceptable North American usage. For non-silly discussions of our shared language around the world, please consult the Oxford Companion to the English Language https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199661282.001.0001/acref-9780199661282
magic:
The same cancer is found all over the world. Here, everybody in Big Self-Important Business™ insists on using (usually half-polonized/bastardized) English words for every stupid little thing which has a perfectly adequate Polish name. It makes them sound Modern and International, apparently.
--- Quote from: eti on September 19, 2021, 02:01:19 am ---What you call “pedantry” is what we English term as “correct English”. Since it is our language, and we conceived it, we get to say what is correct or incorrect, end of story.
Americans don’t use English, they use Americanese, which is a very vague approximated derivative - a junk food version of it.
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Everybody who identifies as an English speaker is an equally valid English speaker :P
eti:
--- Quote from: magic on September 19, 2021, 06:42:04 am ---The same cancer is found all over the world. Here, everybody in Big Self-Important Business™ insists on using (usually half-polonized/bastardized) English words for every stupid little thing which has a perfectly adequate Polish name. It makes them sound Modern and International, apparently.
--- Quote from: eti on September 19, 2021, 02:01:19 am ---What you call “pedantry” is what we English term as “correct English”. Since it is our language, and we conceived it, we get to say what is correct or incorrect, end of story.
Americans don’t use English, they use Americanese, which is a very vague approximated derivative - a junk food version of it.
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Everybody who identifies as an English speaker is an equally valid English speaker :P
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If you “identify” as a horse or not, doesn’t make you one.
magic:
In America, you don't get to tell people who or what they are :P
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