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well i could name handful of devs who have typos or other errors on text and some even speak english natively.I think it well established that spelling and grammar are not my strong suit....
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Is that comma after “Dee” in the fix? Because that’s a mistake.
According to the rulebooks, it should be “Dee and me.” You say, “She lives with me,” not “She lives with I.” That being said, as others have pointed out, it’s perfectly valid to have characters use “incorrect” grammar. Plenty of people hypercorrect to “X and I” because they had that construction drilled into their heads in school.What's interesting about the I/me is the forum's embedded grammar check doesn't flag it either way. Neither did the grammar program I run the script though.
Who the fuck knows?
That’s not a mistake. I found aAlthough, I could make a fool out of myself
I think it is well established that spelling and grammar are not my strong suit....
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post that covers it; essentially, “strange” is an attributive adjective modifying the direct object (“that spelling and grammar are not my strong suit”), akin to a construction such as, “I find him strange,” except that, since the object is a subordinate clause, it has to be replaced by a dummy subject (“it”). Or:- “I find [him] [strange],” has the same construction as,
- “I think [that spelling and grammar are not my strong suit] [well established],” but this sounds confusing, so we change it to,
- “I think [it (= sub. clause)] [well established] {that spelling and grammar are not my strong suit},” inserting a dummy subject and moving the subordinate clause to the end.
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Take out the "Dee, and" and read the sentence. If it works, it's correct; if it doesn't, it isn't (this is how I was taught).The where/were is corrected in the Hotfix.
Son, I tell you, the years she lived with Dee, and me were the best years of my life!
Son, I tell you, the years she lived with Dee, and I were the best years of my life!
What's interesting about the I/me is the forum's embedded grammar check doesn't flag it either way. Neither did the grammar program I run the script though.
Who the fuck knows?
I think it well established that spelling and grammar are not my strong suit....
The grammatically correct wording is "Son, I tell you, the years she lived with Dee, and me were the best years of my life!"
Now, it DOES need for the comma after "Dee" to go away, as such: Son, I tell you, the years she lived with Dee and me were the best years of my life!"
If you still want to indicate a vocal pause after "me", use an ellipsis: "Son, I tell you, the years she lived with Dee and me...were the best years of my life!" Though, I don't think this is needed.
Here endeth today's grammar lesson.
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I choose to believe he is also some who subscribes to the idea of the Walken comma. That is to say, it's not entirely dissimilar to the Oxford comma, and is generally used to denote a pause, but not quite as strong as a semicolon or, like in your example, an ellipsis.Take out the "Dee, and" and read the sentence. If it works, it's correct; if it doesn't, it isn't (this is how I was taught).
The grammatically correct wording is "Son, I tell you, the years she lived with Dee, and me were the best years of my life!"
Now, it DOES need for the comma after "Dee" to go away, as such: Son, I tell you, the years she lived with Dee and me were the best years of my life!"
If you still want to indicate a vocal pause after "me", use an ellipsis: "Son, I tell you, the years she lived with Dee and me...were the best years of my life!" Though, I don't think this is needed.
Here endeth today's grammar lesson.
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That's the comma which is usally humping female aliens...Is there a Shatner comma?
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No. But there is a coma comma. That's the one you get from talkin' 'bout comma's instead of...Is there a Shatner comma?
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That would be cumma cumma, cumma cumma... (BTW, that was an example of a Renfield42069 comma)Chameleon?
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This may be off topic from the titillating grammar lesson,I choose to believe he is also some who subscribes to the idea of the Walken comma. That is to say, it's not entirely dissimilar to the Oxford comma, and is generally used to denote a pause, but not quite as strong as a semicolon or, like in your example, an ellipsis.
but one of my claims to fame is sharing a birthday with Christopher Walken and Angus Young of ACDC... 
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Just met Rachael for the first time... Well, the 10th time probably. Still... I'm in love all over again.
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Hell yeah! Imma gonna do it again too!But did you put a ring on it?