What do you do with the sole purpose of annoying people? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 day ago by SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I love annoying my sister, girlfriend and some friends irl.

Online I tend not to, but in one subtle way I love to.

Censoring a word before posting on Lemmy. Oh how I love watching people tweak bc the u in fuck is lightly cut off. Its so funny to me how big a deal it is to so many people.

What do you do knowing it'll annoy people? Online or not?

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[-] dave@feddit.uk 5 points 1 day ago

I'd just like to thank you for writing "how big a deal" instead of the now ubiquitous "how big of a deal". That would have really annoyed me.

[-] bstix@feddit.dk 2 points 17 hours ago

Exactly how big've deal is it?

[-] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

But the 'of' is grammatically correct

[-] dave@feddit.uk 1 points 17 hours ago

You can find many discussions about that online, and it's basically a BE / AE thing. In BE, it's not correct, hence I'm annoyed a lot of the time.

[-] xylol@leminal.space 2 points 1 day ago

Maybe its a trick to convince people to leave out 'of' to annoy people in the future

[-] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Of the ofs that I could leave out, the ofs that I have left out in the past, and the ofs that I typically include, the ofs that I typically include are the only ofs that get noticed, but the ofs I exclude might be the most impactful ofs. Hard to say for sure.

[-] blackbrook@mander.xyz 0 points 22 hours ago

It's accepted usage, but it's kind of illogical and doesn't add anything. If you take the 'of' out of the phrases they still make perfect sense.

(I use the 'of' myself, out of habit, as I learned to speak that way.)

[-] agitated_judge@sh.itjust.works 2 points 16 hours ago

That no reason remove words from semtences.

[-] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

Brb just gotta go edit the post

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