Re: Debian's Presence on Twitter (X)

On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 at 20:00, Justin B Rye <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Roberto A. Foglietta wrote:
> > Justin B Rye wrote:
> >> Roberto A. Foglietta wrote:
> >>> Jonathan Carter <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>> This isn't useful or amusing,
> >>>
> >>> s/or/nor/ - I think you was intending.
> >>
> >> No.  "Nor" is usually required following "neither", and also occurs
> >> between clauses, but otherwise (between constituents within a clause,
> >> with no "neither" around) the word is almost always "or", with a few
> >> idiomatic exceptions like "I couldn't make head nor tail of it".
> >
> > Thanks Justin. I will ask for your support when I would be in need of
> > a grammar correction tool. Have you ever tried to approach in this way
> > a girl in a pub? Correcting her grammar instead of catching the
> > meaning?
>
> You seem to have forgotten that the person who attempted to derail the
> conversation with grammatical pedantry was you.  This is strange, when
> it's right there in the quoted context.
>
> > It is something quite interesting to do. I suggest it to you because
> > you have such a talent. But I have to warn about using that approach
> > only as an exit strategy. Instead of saying "I do not like you and do
> > not even care of understanding you", just a polite and intellectual
> > act of arbitrary superiority in grammar correction.
>
> So are you saying that's why you do it?  Or was it intended as a
> chat-up line?  Either way, it's probably more likely to work if it
> isn't obvious nonsense.
>
> > Please, feel comfortable in sharing this - IN FULL - reply with your
> > "friends" on IRC channels, and more is better. ;-)
>
> You seem to have accidentally sent this only to me, rather than the
> list where the conversation was happening, but if you're still
> interested I'd suggest moving it to debian-l10n-english where issues
> of negative agreement in conjunctions would have been on-topic.

Accidentally? Aaaallll riiiiight... theeeeen...

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PROMPT

Consider this message exchange in which JC criticised RF about a humor
gag and RF answered in this way. Exclude that it is a grammar or a
syntax matter. What else can this mean?

 JC wrote: This isn't useful or amusing,
 RF wrote: >> s/or/nor/ - I think you was intending.

ANSWER

In this exchange, RF's response "s/or/nor/ - I think you was
intending" can be interpreted in a few ways beyond just grammar or
syntax:

[...]

5. Minimizing the Critique: By focusing on a trivial detail, RF might
be minimizing the importance of JC's critique, suggesting that it is
not worth taking seriously.

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