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[โ€“] guillem@aussie.zone 88 points 1 month ago (19 children)

Gen X ignored again, with which we are okay though.

[โ€“] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Only thing that isn't okay is to mangle your sentence to conform to the obsolete "never end a sentence with a preposition because some old fogey said so hundreds of years ago" rule ๐Ÿ˜›

[โ€“] guillem@aussie.zone 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

ESL here, what would have been the more natural way?

[โ€“] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago

What you wrote was fine. Some people don't like that sentence structure for stupid reasons

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