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10 Sep 22
@trev33 saidI don’t mean to be pick on you but, henceforth the only picture I’ll put on my dartboard is that, of you.😡🎯
This is a man who owns a dartboard and frequency uses it with our pictures on it 😱
10 Sep 22
@divegeester saidNot quite 3.14159 then. 🙂
I don’t mean to be on about the mean, but the mean number of letters per word in your post is 3.75
10 Sep 22
@trev33 saidI don't mean to be sexist but women are better cross-channel swimmers. This is plain biology: they have a higher body-fat:muscle ratio than men, so they are better insulated against the effects of cold water.
I don't mean to be sexist but guys are better chefs.
10 Sep 22
@divegeester saidI don't mean to nitpick, but "if only it were for the rest of us" is the correct formulation.
If only it was for the rest of us.
Courtesy of the grammar Stasi.
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10 Sep 22
@great-big-stees saidYou're always picking on me 😿
I don’t mean to be pick on you but, henceforth the only picture I’ll put on my dartboard is that, of you.😡🎯
Realize I'm due a move, won't be this weekend, by next weekend, promise 🐌
10 Sep 22
@divegeester saidI don't mean to be pedantic, but 'were' and 'was' confuse even some newspaper editors, who should know better. Here's the memory peg: 'If I were you, I wouldn't do that,' which every native speaker immediately recognises as a correct counter-factual (even those who don't know the grammatical classification). The fact is, I am not you, so it is a counter-factual in the present and takes the 'were' form. Whereas 'If I was you, ...' is a statement about the past. 🙂
Thanks moonbus; never give up on me 😉
10 Sep 22
@moonbus saidI can see this is close to your heart 🙂
I don't mean to be pedantic, but 'were' and 'was' confuse even some newspaper editors, who should know better. Here's the memory peg: 'If I were you, I wouldn't do that,' which every native speaker immediately recognises as a correct counter-factual (even those who don't know the grammatical classification). The fact is, I am not you, so it is a counter-factual in the ...[text shortened]... sent and takes the 'were' form. Whereas 'If I was you, ...' is a statement about the past. 🙂
11 Sep 22
@moonbus saidThank you, this rule, so to speak, was not included in my English education.
I don't mean to be pedantic, but 'were' and 'was' confuse even some newspaper editors, who should know better. Here's the memory peg: 'If I were you, I wouldn't do that,' which every native speaker immediately recognises as a correct counter-factual (even those who don't know the grammatical classification). The fact is, I am not you, so it is a counter-factual in the ...[text shortened]... sent and takes the 'were' form. Whereas 'If I was you, ...' is a statement about the past. 🙂