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[–] Hxrmit@thelemmy.club 35 points 1 week ago

He is the gigachad image

[–] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago

Let's go Brandon indeed

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

While it's indeed fake, the satire was fun. It notes that whenever you see a Let's Go Brandon bumper sticker, it's in regards to this very famous gay porn star. Same with the chants. Those guys were just big fans of gay porn, y'know.

[–] huppakee@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

So the good news is he got 35 of 'em, the bad news is that it's just 35 of 'em. Hope they'll release him soon.

[–] Hackworth@piefed.ca 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's gotta be a high score

[–] anachronology@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago

Not quite Zhukov scores, but Patton and Monty would be jealous.

[–] killea@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Man I really wish this wasn't a fake news story...

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 week ago

What is even the point of this? If it's satire, what's the joke?

[–] LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Is it ever appropriate to use an apostrophe to pluralize a word?

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Never, ever. It's like screaming "what is words?!"

[–] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

It is not. That was a typo from the satirical website.

[–] houndeyes@toast.ooo 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is it ever appropriate to use an apostrophe to pluralize a word?

Surprisingly, I stumbled upon exceptions on Wikipedia not too long ago. E.g., pluralizing single letters (Oakland A's) and symbols (#'s).

[–] uberfreeza@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I was wondering about that. I assumed there wasn't exceptions, because those can still be possessive. Oakland A's members or 13's unlucky superstition. I'm not surprised though, because English is a stupid mess of a language.

[–] huppakee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I'm not natively English but isn't that always when you could read it wrong without the apostrophe? E.g. it's zoos and bows, but not hos?

Edit: this example doesn't really do much, since you could argue about it's ho's nazi or a nazi's ho, and hoes is probably more correct anyway. I retract myself from this discussion.

[–] ekky@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not native either, but pretty sure apostrophe-s is about ownership whereas just s is about plural. eg.:

"It's a dog's bark."

"The dogs are barking."

[–] huppakee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

That is definitely the main rule, but i believe there are exceptions. I could be wrong though

[–] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

"Its" vs "it's" is probably the most common mistake in the English language. Apostrophe is used for ownership as well as contraction, BUT contraction supersedes ownership. So its means ownership and it's means it is.

[–] Slatlun@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Not quite. No apostrophe usually means plural. With apostrophe means possessive or a contraction (what is to what's). Its/it's is an edge case where the possessive "its" has no apostrophe and contraction "it's" does.

All that being said, native speakers mistype all of these all of the time, so you don't have to worry about it for casual conversation.

[–] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nah, but that is how some people view and use it. It doesn't bother me personally if it seems intentional to quicken clarity. It at least makes more sense to me than possession on a name ending in 's', E.G. Bernie Sanders' policies. It breaks down further if the Sanders had a family reunion, what is the Sanderses'? Sanders'? preference for food?

[–] huppakee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Afaik it's not just how people use it but what has been agreed upon by the respective rulemakers. I was just commenting on whether it's appropriate though, completely agree it's arbitrary and imperfect.

[–] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Gotcha and I agree about it being as clear as mud. Also your English is amazing. Like better than most native speakers

[–] huppakee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Thank you, so is yours but you might not say that if you weren't a native yourself

[–] Janx@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

"Let's"? That's not plural, that's a contraction. It's short for "let us".

[–] db2@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago
[–] houndeyes@toast.ooo 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Dude looks like Wolfenstein 3D's B.J. Blazkowicz.

[–] ItsMyVault101@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago

but this guys B.J. means something different.

[–] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Least realistic thing about it is that if there were 35 Neonazis in one place that the cops wouldn't be there too.

[–] kgbbot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

35‽ Wow, either he was on a super cocaine rampage or the Nazis are bigger pussies than we realized..

My money is on the naizs = pussies

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

Newsweek says it didn't happen. In 2022.

Disappointed, though. It should have happened.