• lath@piefed.social
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      Your mastery of the English language needs work. My usage is acceptable within the context.

      To explain further, the two sentences can be reworked as “he can be a pretentious twat when he starts his own pizza place”. The connection is implied and it works because English is three languages in a trenchcoat. Or was it four?

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        10 hours ago

        Given you are talking about “mastery” of the English language: a semicolon might have made your first message more readable; a period makes the two sentences appear as separate statements.

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          5 hours ago

          Yeees, but they were in the same paragraph. So they were connected statements.

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          2 days ago

          Now that you mention it… I see it.

          But I’m going to be a pretentious twat and ignore that. 😗

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            No worries. You were very kind in suggesting US English was only a few languages in a trenchcoat. We all know it’s actually several, bastardized, broken, and beer-battered before being deep-fried in bullshit. 😋