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  1. chenGOD
    I never disagreed that it was technically correct. I argued that he shouldn’t use it. That form being technically correct doesn’t make the other incorrect. And you agreed with me earlier when you said you wouldn’t use it ? SFWP: the guy who sits a level above me at work (he’s not a manager) thinks he needs me to CC him on every email conversation I have with various colleagues. He also has a propensity to attach documents to emails as opposed to saving them in the shared drive for our team, which fucks up my email inbox regularly (we have limited space for email). He also won’t shut up about driving his BMW. I really hope he gets castrated so he can’t pass on his genes.
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    I’m in Canada though. It’s all our unbridled socialism. But if I’m in the states I’ll swing by a Blackwell’s...
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    Fuck outta here with your linguistic prescriptivism. Both ways are correct and that’s it. One is more elegant and the other is archaic even if technically correct. If you ever study Japanese or Korean your head is going to explode. Worse than your velvet lilac chinos phase? Or were they velour?
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    The White House doesn’t offer medical insurance to its’ employees?
  5. chenGOD
    Do you know what linguistic prescription means? As nouns of direct address are in the vocative case, you further strengthened the argument that the use of the comma to mark that case is archaic. No confusion about it. It’s clunky, doesn’t add any additional clarity, and breaks up the flow of speech unnecessarily. Given the German love of beautiful engineering, I’m surprised any German would make the argument for using it.
  6. chenGOD
    This is ridiculous. You called an interjection an imperative, are trying to defend the use of punctuation in a vocative case when you have admitted yourself that English does not use the vocative case anymore (yes, nouns of direct address are the vocative case). The comma usage suggested adds no clarity and is completely unnecessary. German may be a strictly prescriptive language (I don’t know, I don’t speak German) but English isn’t. Sorry if the evolution of the language bothers you.
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    Man it's been a minute since I checked in on Otto Von Schirach, but he's taken that Florida lifestyle to heart.
  8. chenGOD
    Never - I will fight against redundant linguistic prescription 'til my death. Except for the Oxford comma, some things are sacrosanct. Peel your onions over the sink. Wet the leavings before you place in the compost. Alternatively, peel over a ziploc bag, and freeze the skins along with other vegetable bits you would usually cast away. After you've accumulated a sufficient amount, boil in water to make a vegetable stock (it takes a fair bit of vegetable leavings to do this, hence the freezing part). If you want to make bone broth (apparently it's all the rage), simply add a couple of leftover bones from whatever meat you happen to have eaten (chicken and beef work best).
  9. chenGOD
    Whipped into a fervor by a not-very-good orator who knows how to play to their base emotions, combined with a fear and lack of understanding of how American society is very slowly changing.
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    https://old.reddit.com/r/InsaneParler/comments/kd7zv0/trumps_proud_boy_nazis_attack_a_jewish_couple/
  11. chenGOD
    Luxardos are also like $25 a jar.
  12. chenGOD
    I’m surprised you missed the key point @dingformung (namely, I wasn’t wrong). Now it is I who is disappointed. @Cryptowen you should view it as an opportunity to take out the largest loan possible without worrying about ever having to pay it back. I for one can’t wait until my mortgage payments are no longer a burden.
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    Solid dairy comrade!
  14. chenGOD
    https://youtu.be/uwwmKcFVji8
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    With fuck you, it doesn’t apply ever. Why would it? “I’ll never forget you grandma.” Direct means direct. If you really want to be prescriptive, then be fucking prescriptive. If the person is there and present, go ahead. It’s a fantastic book! Yeah, I’m aware, but a Manhattan calls for Maraschino cherries. Finally found some though!
  16. chenGOD
    It has to be written or said directly to the noun in question. This was a general “fuck you google”. Not hard to pick up. Also, see ignatius’ post about prescriptive vs descriptive grammar and understand that context matters.
  17. chenGOD
    Sorry I disappointed you, dingformung. I’m not wrong though. Unless you consider google to be in the room at all times through his pixel. Even then, the point is largely moot as English doesn’t use the vocative case anymore.
  18. chenGOD
    As a first world problem, I’m playing Fallout4, and I’ve misplaced a suit of power armour.
  19. chenGOD
    Clearly not. Context matters in language and grammar, and the word direct in means exactly that in a noun of direct address. A noun of direct address is the person directly being spoken to or written to. Clearly this is not the case in this sentence.
  20. chenGOD
    How can “fuck you” be an imperative? Imperatives are commands. Context matters. Have, a, good night!
  21. chenGOD
    Fuck you is not an imperative. Fuck yourself would be the imperative form. The second clause “suck my dick” is the imperative. Ding’s post is also incorrect, because as he correctly pointed out, English doesn’t have a vocative case anymore. It was also missing a period, so really hard to interpret any irony in there. Of course he’s not. Was google in the room with him?
  22. chenGOD
    Technically, the direct address comma is used when you know, directly addressing the subject. He’s not.
  23. chenGOD
    How is it puzzling? Also “you’re”.
  24. chenGOD
    It’s impossible to read it as the former because of the second clause where google is the (implied) subject in an imperative clause. It’s also why I’d say the direct address comma is unnecessary since a noun of direct address can never be a subject.
  25. chenGOD
    You’re not setting google aside from “fuck you” though. Also, he’s not addressing google directly (he’s not speaking to google but expressing a thought) as google isn’t standing in front of him. It could be acceptable, but it’s not needed. I spend too much time writing policy documents, so I almost never use direct speech, which is why I interpret that particular clause that way.
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