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"I think you mean: "How pedantic are you when choosing whom to meet?”" Ba doom... ching. | |||
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"I think you mean: "How pedantic are you when choosing whom to meet?”" fine we’ll go with that if you want to be pedantic | |||
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"I think you mean: "How pedantic are you when choosing whom to meet?” Ba doom... ching. " Not really a ba boom moment, as the object wasn’t mentioned ( he/she , him/her, , just the stated fact of ‘a meet’ . I’m either correct or my English master was talking shite all those years ago  | |||
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"I think you mean: "How pedantic are you when choosing whom to meet?”" "This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put!"... WLSC. 😁 | |||
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"Are we at the carvery? I expect lamb, but we never see it. Pork, beef and turkey. Yuk. I want flavour." Goose. Pheasant. Yak. The holy trinity of meets. | |||
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"I think you mean: "How pedantic are you when choosing whom to meet?” "This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put!"... WLSC. 😁" Shall not  | |||
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"Not pedantic, more just have a specific type, but pretty easy going. I rarely meet anyone anyway as don’t like to meet a lot of people. " Not being pedantic, but you omitted the subject in two sentences. I think you mean: “ Not pedantic, more just I have a specific type, but I’m pretty easy going. I rarely meet anyone anyway as I don’t like to meet a lot of people. | |||
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"Not pedantic, more just have a specific type, but pretty easy going. I rarely meet anyone anyway as don’t like to meet a lot of people. Not being pedantic, but you omitted the subject in two sentences. I think you mean: “ Not pedantic, more just I have a specific type, but I’m pretty easy going. I rarely meet anyone anyway as I don’t like to meet a lot of people." I think he's confusing pedantic with choosy. They're not the same thing. | |||
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"Not pedantic, more just have a specific type, but pretty easy going. I rarely meet anyone anyway as don’t like to meet a lot of people. Not being pedantic, but you omitted the subject in two sentences. I think you mean: “ Not pedantic, more just I have a specific type, but I’m pretty easy going. I rarely meet anyone anyway as I don’t like to meet a lot of people. I think he's confusing pedantic with choosy. They're not the same thing." He literally said "Not pedantic...." | |||
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"Not pedantic, more just have a specific type, but pretty easy going. I rarely meet anyone anyway as don’t like to meet a lot of people. Not being pedantic, but you omitted the subject in two sentences. I think you mean: “ Not pedantic, more just I have a specific type, but I’m pretty easy going. I rarely meet anyone anyway as I don’t like to meet a lot of people. I think he's confusing pedantic with choosy. They're not the same thing. He literally said "Not pedantic...."" “Literally” as in without exaggeration? The word “literally” has been considered somewhat controversial by linguistic prescriptivists. | |||
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