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@trev33 saidI don’t mean to be pick on you but, henceforth the only picture I’ll put on my dartboard is that, of you.😡🎯
This is a man who owns a dartboard and frequency uses it with our pictures on it 😱
@trev33 saidI don't mean to be sexist but women are better cross-channel swimmers. This is plain biology: they have a higher body-fat:muscle ratio than men, so they are better insulated against the effects of cold water.
I don't mean to be sexist but guys are better chefs.
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@great-big-stees saidYou're always picking on me 😿
I don’t mean to be pick on you but, henceforth the only picture I’ll put on my dartboard is that, of you.😡🎯
Realize I'm due a move, won't be this weekend, by next weekend, promise 🐌
-Removed-I don't mean to be pedantic, but 'were' and 'was' confuse even some newspaper editors, who should know better. Here's the memory peg: 'If I were you, I wouldn't do that,' which every native speaker immediately recognises as a correct counter-factual (even those who don't know the grammatical classification). The fact is, I am not you, so it is a counter-factual in the present and takes the 'were' form. Whereas 'If I was you, ...' is a statement about the past. 🙂
@moonbus saidThank you, this rule, so to speak, was not included in my English education.
I don't mean to be pedantic, but 'were' and 'was' confuse even some newspaper editors, who should know better. Here's the memory peg: 'If I were you, I wouldn't do that,' which every native speaker immediately recognises as a correct counter-factual (even those who don't know the grammatical classification). The fact is, I am not you, so it is a counter-factual in the ...[text shortened]... sent and takes the 'were' form. Whereas 'If I was you, ...' is a statement about the past. 🙂