• 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    All you’re doing is being a grammar nazi to someone who at most said the equivalent of “$30 million dollars”, which is technically, thanks to the dollar sign, “thirty million dollars dollars”.

    You knew what they meant. I knew what they meant. Everyone knew what they meant. There was absolutely zero ambiguity, so you just come off looking like a prick.

        • SaltSong@startrek.website
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          8 hours ago

          Possibly not.

          But “We know what he meant” when someone demonstrates that they don’t know what they are talking about has proven to be dangerous.

          I wouldn’t hire a mechanic who thought cats traveled at miles per MPH. Why should I listen to someone talk about boats who thinks “knots per hour” is a speed?