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[-] JackLSauce@lemmy.world 39 points 4 months ago

How I feel when people needlessly use a preposition to end a sentence with

[-] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

That rule doesn't actually exist in English. It's a Latin rule that some British asshole in the 1800s wanted to impose on English because he believed that Latin was a perfect language and anything that works differently from Latin is a flaw to be corrected.

[-] JackLSauce@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago
[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

You mean, hard mode is what you play on.

[-] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Hard is the mode on which I play.

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

I play with hard mode on.

Edit: Dammit, someone beat me to the joke.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

The point is that "in" doesn't need to be in the text at all.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 4 months ago
[-] PatMustard@feddit.uk 2 points 4 months ago

"How dads feel when a stranger uses their driveway in which to turn around" makes you sound like a bit of a wanker though

[-] JackLSauce@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago
  1. You can just drop the "in" altogether

  2. Why just "sound like" when I can be?

[-] PatMustard@feddit.uk 1 points 4 months ago

I like your attitude!

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