• SendMePhotos@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    OH! I was wondering wtf they were saying. Dude I didn’t get it.

    The other one that bothers me is “try and” instead of “try to.” for some reason it really gets to me.

    • jaspersgroove@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      Heaven help you if you ever run into a situation where “piqued” is contextually appropriate.

      Lose and loose as well…and cue/que/queue, and dozens of others

    • FlightyPenguin@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      I love the Strunk and White style guide that says, “try and ‘try to’”. Very tongue-in-grammatical-cheek.

    • idiomaddict@feddit.de
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      4 months ago

      That’s pretty similar to: “I’ll go and do something“ instead of “I’ll go do something.“ I wonder if there are other examples.