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The amount of grammatical mistakes in your own comment is pretty ironic as well.
Muphry's Law strikes again.
Excuse me, it's Muphry's Theory. It hasn't been proven enough to be a scientific law.
I dont believe in Muphies Theory cause uts just a theory. I've done my own research and u ahoukd to.
Hehe I remember Muphies. That Kermit always got up to shenanigans!
Menzies'es Pretty Solid Hunch
I'm sure this comment can't go wromg.
😆👌 fair enough
Oh my word, this was embarrassing for you. 😂 My spelling was absolutely perfect, you shmuck. No wonder you deleted it before I even saw the reply in my inbox.
Hardly embarrassing - you don’t seem to understand light hearted banter clearly….yes I was playing on Murphy/Muphry.
Geez straight to name calling though - classy 🙄
Have a nice life.
You're right. The schmuck name calling was perhaps a bit harsh on you.
You were "playing" on Murphy/Muphry? What does that mean? It seems like you just didn't know Muphry's Law was a thing, and you tried to hang me for "misspelling" it, then you realized what it is and deleted the comment. But maybe I'm just assuming. 🤷♂️
I don't know if you're bantering, perhaps you are. I just have a hobby of shitting on people's grammar that complain about other people's grammar. It's this Robin Hood type of feeling I get. I'm probably sick or something.
Take care!
Well then use this as a teaching moment and elaborate then?
I live in a country that uses the King’s English, not the American version so please enlighten me - I do enjoy learning.
But don’t say there are an amount of errors without even trying to quantify them….given the burden of proof rests with you.
Fair enough, let's have at it, Mr. "King's English". (God, do you even hear how insufferably pretentious that sounds?)
Let's start with the original comment. My edits in [brackets].
Next comment!
Did you learn something?
That clause was fine up to the missing commas. He's pointing at the phrase and saying that's irony right there. Perhaps you're unfamiliar with that structure. I don't think it's common in all Englishes
That's pedantic. Nearly no one uses en and em dashes; if they're typing on a physical keyboard those dashes are hard to type
I am, but it's grammatically insufficient. Idiomatically/colloquially/slang wise, it's fine. I understood enough to know what they mean, obviously.
Of course it's pedantic. I'm going out of my way to be pedantic to show this grammar snob what it feels like to throw the first stone.
Skill issue. If they care enough, it's easy to find out how. 🤷♂️ I use them all the time.
Thanks for joining the fun!
Isn't the first mistake simply him using the sentence to declare there is irony? How is that an incomplete sentence?
Could you clarify? Do you mean to say it's incomplete or actually complete?
I meant to say that part is already a complete sentence.
Now, I'm not as much of a grammar nerd as I'd like to be, but from what I understand, "irony right there" isn't a complete sentence, or barely even a complete clause. It's just a few words that should be part of a clause.
Maybe someone could fill in the grammatical details here, or prove me wrong.
I guess if he wrote "That's irony right there", it would be easier to consider it a complete sentence, so maybe you're right.
Yes – exactly! I think that's actually the missing part here: "That's". It makes the following thing they say sound much more complete. 👍 Thank you!