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?
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.
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. 😋
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?
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.
Yeees, but they were in the same paragraph. So they were connected statements.
TBF, so does theirs, it seems. ☝🏼
Now that you mention it… I see it.
But I’m going to be a pretentious twat and ignore that. 😗
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. 😋