Re:Google is funding the creation of software that writes lo...
by bshimmin on Saturday July 08, 2017 @07:02PM
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Your sentence was unidiomatic to this native English speaker - "point" and "out" always belong together in a construct like that.
My offer was a joke, but never mind.
Re:Google is funding the creation of software that writes lo...
by dozzie on Saturday July 08, 2017 @07:20PM
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> Your sentence was unidiomatic to this native English speaker
[emphasis mine]
Fair enough, but I obviously picked up this manner somewhere, and from what I remember, it was long before internet got crowded by people from all over the world, so I think it was from some other native English speakers.
> My offer was a joke, but never mind.
Your joke went over my head so high that I recoiled from the superiority vibe I got from reading it as an actual offer. (I just wanted you to know that, now that it's clear what it was.)
Though my sentence was grammatically and semantically correct, but the sentence I was complaining about was semantically invalid, so it was a little too much from you to point that out (stranding here fully intended).
> If you cc me on all your work correspondence, I'll be happy to point out any grammatical errors I find (for a fee, obviously).
A "nice" offer, but I'll pass. First, I'm not in a position to copy my work correspondence to a random dude from the internets. Second, my work correspondence is mainly in my native language.