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[โ€“] guillem@aussie.zone 88 points 1 month ago (19 children)

Gen X ignored again, with which we are okay though.

[โ€“] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Only thing that isn't okay is to mangle your sentence to conform to the obsolete "never end a sentence with a preposition because some old fogey said so hundreds of years ago" rule ๐Ÿ˜›

[โ€“] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm ok with ignoring this rule. Most of us do anyway. While we're at it, can we also put "never split the infinitive" on the chopping block?

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