Re:Evidence That Online Dating Is Changing Society
by eecc on Thursday October 12, 2017 @03:04AM
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Nope. “With no reason to...” is a contextual connector, it adds to the first statement. Your interpretation would be correct if it read “therefore have no reason to...”
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Re:Evidence That Online Dating Is Changing Society
by ohyes on Thursday October 12, 2017 @04:05AM
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Matt4077 is correct. I do not care what people do.
Re:Evidence That Online Dating Is Changing Society
by eecc on Thursday October 12, 2017 @04:18AM
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Alright, whatever... although, grammatically I cannot see where you get that implication
Re:Evidence That Online Dating Is Changing Society
by ohyes on Thursday October 12, 2017 @05:26AM
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The context is "a person who has no trouble getting people to have sex with him."
The statement within that context is that he has "no reason to commit to a woman."
I guess it could be just a statement of fact. "A lot of these people, they're just doing it."
It seems sloppy to throw that contextual tidbit into the middle of an unrelated sentence. Particularly given that it is a fact that doesn't really need to be explained to anyone listening. So yeah, maybe it is just sloppy writing.
But I think that is being very generous given it would have to be superfluous information within an entirely unrelated thought, meaning the writer basically made two mistakes at once.
People also tend to use with and therefore fairly interchangeably in colloquial settings.