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Okay, let's try this again (lemmy.world)
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[-] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 35 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

This is why some people insist on the generic he in English. A few hundred years ago, some British asshole who thought Latin was a perfect language decided to impose Latin rules on English, including such nonsense as "you can't end a sentence with a preposition" and "never split infinitives", as well as proscribing the then-common singular they in favor of "he". The damage he did to the English language is still not fully repaired.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

the singular they is pretty cool

[-] match@pawb.social 6 points 4 months ago

thanks! i think you're pretty cool too

[-] GabrielBell12fi@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

But not ending a sentence with a preposition lead to a surprising grammar joke in "Beavis and Butthead Do America" which was one of the highlights of my early twenties.

It was really something magnificent to behold :)

[-] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 months ago

If it was so good then what was it?

[-] GabrielBell12fi@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah -- it kind of loses something when you retell it out of context, but I'll give it a go :-

Agent Bork: Chief, you know that guy whose camper they were whacking off in?

Agent Fleming: Bork, you're a Federal Agent. You represent the United States government. Never end a sentence with a preposition.

See I am a huge grammar nerd, and I find grammar jokes, and dangling modifier jokes and so on, really funny.

But given the general level of humour in "Beavis and Butthead" I wasn't expecting this sort of joke, and it entirely caught me by surprise, and made me laugh for five minutes. I just thought it was far funnier and far better than most of the humour in the film.

Yeah, okay. Maybe it's just me.

[-] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago

No that's pretty awesome

[-] _g_be@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Who is this Brit, I want to have a word

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