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This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

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If you find yourself getting angry (or god forbid, agreeing) with something Anon has said, you might be doing it wrong.

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[–] M137@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (8 children)

"the ones I spied for weeks"

Words hard, apparently.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"only reason the doom is not doomed"

he am good word man

[–] underline960@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

I can empathize.

I'm a native speaker and sometimes even my words refuse to English right.

[–] srestegosaurio@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Genuine question from a non native English speaker here: what's wrong?

[–] DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We would usually say "the ones I spied on". English is the only language I've ever spoken and although it sounds weird to not include the word "on", I really dont see why its necessary either.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago

Because "spied for," and "spied with" are both options.

"I spied them" is a legitimate sentence, but it doesn't mean covert surveillance in that sentence, only to have seen then, generally through some difficulty.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

They left out the word "on" and the best that m137 has to contribute to the conversation is someone did a typo.

[–] underline960@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's supposed to be "the ones I spied on for weeks".

The ones on whom I spied for weeks. 😂

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[–] Alloi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

bad writing from an uncompassionate TERF dip shit loser. thats why.

"the wizards used to shit on the floor and magic it away before they discovered toilets"

fuckin' drunk.

[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago

I think the castle is really neat and cool and fun to explore in the video games

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