• OwOarchist@pawb.social
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      17 hours ago

      The grammar there isn’t incorrect at all. It’s still perfectly valid grammar. It’s just longer and more circuitous than needed, and it sets a weird formal/aristocratic/patronizing tone.

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        15 hours ago

        To me it just reads as someone whose native language would use the present-progressive tense for this kind of statement.

        True, it’s not incorrect grammar in English. It just sounds off because we would typically use the infinitive form to discuss a need like this. That’s not necessarily the case in every language though.