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Grammatical quirks that once annoyed me but I now find charming
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:14 AM Author: Primrose stead juggernaut - saying "anymore" instead of "nowadays," e.g. "kids are always looking at screens anymore" - saying "whenever" instead of "when," e.g. "whenever my dad died, I paid off my debts" |
Date: April 28th, 2026 3:15 PM Author: Primrose stead juggernaut (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849013) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:22 PM Author: excitant halford old irish cottage I haven't heard people talk like this. Is this a regional thing?
I've also heard of people mixing leave and let, which is another one I've never actually experienced. |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:47 PM Author: Primrose stead juggernaut "Anymore" kinda gives midwest vibes but nah I've heard COASTAL ELITISTS say both of these (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849098) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:26 PM Author: Nighttime confused temple elastic band Worthy of death:
expresso could care less eckcetera disorientated eckspecially axe (me a question)
Charming:
less phrases and more certain regional and ethnic accents |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:38 PM Author: coiffed range hominid Axe a question is especially grating. I say this as someone who is a big fan of AAVE. I think it's a wonderful dialect. That being said I can't take anyone seriously who says axe. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849074) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:47 PM Author: Primrose stead juggernaut Yeah almost all of those make my ears bleed (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849101) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:51 PM Author: coiffed range hominid This is a fun one but in Québec they have an expression «Je m'en bas les couilles» which means "I'm beating my balls with it." It's used similarly to I could care less or I don't give a fuck. Often used sarcastically when someones says something they think is important and you have zero interest in it. Also rly funny how girls say this a lot. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849117) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:53 PM Author: Primrose stead juggernaut (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849124) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:03 PM Author: Nighttime confused temple elastic band I suddenly love Canada (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849146) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:26 PM Author: racy menage anymore and nowadays are synonyms how is that a quirk (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849041) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:50 PM Author: Primrose stead juggernaut For me, "anymore" requires a negative, like, they don't do this thing (that they used to do) anymore. The positive construction sounds odd to me. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849112) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:30 PM Author: coiffed range hominid What's your stance on begs the question (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849047) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:31 PM Author: racy menage we're doing "seggs the question" now (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849050) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:50 PM Author: Primrose stead juggernaut (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849114) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:51 PM Author: Primrose stead juggernaut I hate when people use it when they really mean it RAISES a question. But I hear smart people do that all the time and have accepted it as a fact of life. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849118) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:55 PM Author: coiffed range hominid Your life sounds like a Greek tragedy of epic proportions (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849128) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:35 PM Author: Plum Appetizing Base a-prefixing (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849059) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:36 PM Author: scarlet aromatic space feces 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849066) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:52 PM Author: Primrose stead juggernaut (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849120) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:40 PM Author: coiffed range hominid My biggest pet peeve is when gunneratttt uses nonplussed in its nouveau Reddit-chic usage to mean not completely happy when it really means shocked to the point of speechlessness. It's supposed to mean "I can't even..." but the internet crowd has lazily repurposed it. gunneratttt says nonplussed wrong about 5 times per month. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849081) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:49 PM Author: Mahogany People Who Are Hurt Whorehouse you don't even know Gaulish (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849108) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:53 PM Author: coiffed range hominid I don't know jack about Gaulish, Gallo-Roman, Breton, Anglo-Norman, Gascon, Provençal inter alia and my life is a complete waste (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849125) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:57 PM Author: Plum Appetizing Base (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849133) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:31 PM Author: scarlet aromatic space feces (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849205) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:38 PM Author: Plum Appetizing Base (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849213) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 8:46 PM Author: scarlet aromatic space feces (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849820) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:15 PM Author: swashbuckling red crackhouse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849170) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 8:46 PM Author: scarlet aromatic space feces (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849821) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:41 PM Author: Trip selfie meetinghouse I like 'irregardless' (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849085) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:46 PM Author: coiffed range hominid (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849095) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:52 PM Author: Primrose stead juggernaut (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849121) |
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Date: April 30th, 2026 3:12 PM Author: scarlet aromatic space feces (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49854695) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:52 PM Author: vivacious fuchsia gunner “Lose” and “loose” really trip proles up, they are unable to contend with it ime. It’s an instant class/IQ tell. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849122) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:03 PM Author: Primrose stead juggernaut 😖🔫 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849145) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:05 PM Author: Nighttime confused temple elastic band Rogue and rouge too (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849152) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 8:32 PM Author: Mahogany People Who Are Hurt Whorehouse it's a spelling error, not a grammatical one you bald dork (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849787) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:06 PM Author: Plum Appetizing Base when a teacher came out swinging over the word "ain't" in the first month of school we understood it as useful code for "write like libs also TWD" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849155) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:16 PM Author: Primrose stead juggernaut What's TWD?
I guess one good thing about woke is that people have become more descriptivist about grammar. Kids are (I think) being taught more that dialect-specific vernacular isn't WRONG, just nonstandard English. |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:37 PM Author: Plum Appetizing Base that kind of old world vernacular has been overshadowed by absurd gen slang, like "ain't" was abrasive to her but at least it's intelligible. Total White Death, she was one of two black teachers we had and didn't last long. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849212) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 5:08 PM Author: Primrose stead juggernaut Cr it's a lot "67" type nonsense and also a lot of the things they say are constructed so as NOT to communicate information. Like apparently it's common for them to say, "That's not..." and that's it, that's the whole sentence. And even the expression "it made me feel some kind of way" makes me think language is kind of going backwards. The point of communicating your feelings is to use your words to say what they are. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849287) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 5:18 PM Author: coiffed range hominid A Gen Z African American gentleman recently told me that a woman he knew "sold X." I was very confused. It seemed like he was saying that she was an ecstasy dealer. After pressing him for more information he revealed that what he meant was she broke up with her boyfriend before he started working out and lost a lot of weight and got jacked. She sold her exbf when he was at a low point and now he's handsome. She sold ex.
That was a lot to unpack! |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 8:47 PM Author: scarlet aromatic space feces (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849826) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:06 PM Author: coiffed range hominid This is another fun one but I've met proles who call Haïti, "Hai Tai" unironically like Mai Tai (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849157) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:11 PM Author: brilliant lettuce i've heard del-HIGH
prole midwestern boomer in biz on my flight to india said he was going to del-HIGH |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:13 PM Author: coiffed range hominid It's almost unconscionable to say Iran or Iraq correctly. You have to say I-RAN and qaTAR or it's unpatriotic. Deli is easy because it's just the English word deli. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849167) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:17 PM Author: Primrose stead juggernaut I say Qatar with equal emphasis on the syllables, is that right? Seems like everyone is either saying "qaTAR" or "cutter" anymore (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849176) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:20 PM Author: coiffed range hominid It's definitely supposed to be QAT-ar. The turbo prole way is to say Cutter. The disrespectful chauvinist way is CaTAR like guitar. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849179) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:24 PM Author: brilliant lettuce now do Eid
tbf, proles dont even know wtf an eid is. |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:25 PM Author: coiffed range hominid I know a surprising number of British Muslim people so Eid comes up a fair amount imo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849193) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 5:19 PM Author: crusty 180 marketing idea Not sure why anyone would shorten eidibus to eid, but people have been doing it for a couple thousand years and it just entered the vernacular. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849325) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 6:05 PM Author: brilliant lettuce beware of the eid of ramadan (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849456) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 8:22 PM Author: excitant halford old irish cottage *golf clap* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849774) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 8:48 PM Author: scarlet aromatic space feces (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849827) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:13 PM Author: vivacious fuchsia gunner lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849168) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:18 PM Author: Primrose stead juggernaut Lmao amazing (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849177) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:50 PM Author: cowardly ungodly newt Delhi, NY is pronounced “del-HI” by locals.
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:51 PM Author: brilliant lettuce rofl @ The town was named after Delhi, India, in honor of founder Ebenezer Foote, who was known as "The Great Mogul". The pronunciation is attributed to Foote's rival Erastus Root, who reportedly exclaimed upon learning of the town's name, "Delhi, Hell-high! Might as well call it Foote-high."[4] An alternate explanation of its pronunciation and namesake is due to its location, high on the Delaware River.[3]
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:23 PM Author: flickering arousing preventive strike volcanic crater i hate when people use mouth words (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849188) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:32 PM Author: Dead Garrison Fanboi My favorite little opera that you see play out around dissonant modern language is Southerners bewildered looks when Yankee shitlibs try to adopt regional vernacular and colloquialisms because they want to sound Black and don’t realize that they instead sound Hick.
Especially funny with shitlib transplants who got forcibly relocated by their NE megacorp overlords to Nashville, Tallahassee, Dallas, etc. |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:37 PM Author: Primrose stead juggernaut Sounds incredibly cringe. Ya I've noticed on the internet people seem to classify things as AAVE that I just think of as southern. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849211) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 5:07 PM Author: coiffed range hominid They're very close in any case and one is descended from the other.
What's funny to me is people who think words like ain't are distinctly southern or distinctly black when they were recorded first in England many centuries ago. To wit much of what we attribute to southern or black culture in speech and lexicon comes from poor people from England a million years ago. We should get John McWhorter to do a guest poast about this. |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 8:05 PM Author: Dead Garrison Fanboi One rule (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849736) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 5:08 PM Author: Plum Appetizing Base finna that's about it |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 5:03 PM Author: Plum Appetizing Base when you catch blacks having a particularly good day they'll call you "sugar" or "baby" (hon and darlin are white) and I imagine this was EPAH's first erection. Others that could be perceived as generally southern but are in fact white: sir/ma'am directly (soon) old lexical devices related to hunting, fishing (hotter n blue blazes, varmint, that dog won't hunt, fine as frog's hair) but not really used in everyday conversation you're just expected to understand and agree
Yanks REALLY like "y'all" |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 6:23 PM Author: Primrose stead juggernaut (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849514) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 8:47 PM Author: scarlet aromatic space feces (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849825) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 6:23 PM Author: Geriatric french chef Those are not grammatical though (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849511) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 6:24 PM Author: Primrose stead juggernaut Wdym? Like they're not grammatically correct or they're not grammatical phenomena? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849523) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 6:35 PM Author: Geriatric french chef I kind of think grammatical failures are things along the lines of “and then he said he is going to drive there”. Those in OP are comprehension failures. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849555) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 7:02 PM Author: Primrose stead juggernaut That makes sense. Oh well, you can interpret the title loosely (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849615) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 8:12 PM Author: cocky exhilarant plaza Never understood the hate/misunderstanding of "could care less". It's just sarcasm. Like saying "Yeah, I give a fuck" when you actually do not give a fuck. Why don't people get this? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849743) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 8:42 PM Author: cowardly ungodly newt 95% of people who say “could care less” don’t understand that. They think they’re saying “couldn’t care less.”
Personally I don’t mind “could care less” cause it sounds better. Rolls off the tongue cleaner. But let’s not pretend it isn’t prole. |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 8:54 PM Author: coiffed range hominid (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849853) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 8:56 PM Author: Primrose stead juggernaut Good point, hadn't thought of it that way, but I agree with Big Clique Energy that most of them probably don't intend it as sarcastic (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849869) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 8:15 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle flatulent affirmative action personal credit line "fixin' to" = preparing to, readying oneself to (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849757) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 8:54 PM Author: coiffed range hominid Finna is way worse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49849856) |
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Date: April 30th, 2026 3:35 PM Author: Primrose stead juggernaut I agree this is endearing (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2#49854771) |