Improper grammar, starting a sentence with so or this
So I wanted to harp briefly on how irritating it is for a lot of us to read sentences that start with so.
This. What, was that a sentence?
This. What, was that a sentence?
It can bug you but you can't keep people from changing the rules by using the language in a way they like. That has been happening since the first campfire.
True enough; I still go into shaddup-you-kids-get-off-my-lawn mode, though, when I see impact used as a verb or their as a singular pronoun.
So, I wanted to harp briefly on how irritating it is for a lot of us to read sentences where people neglect to use commas and quotation marks where appropriate.
> This. What, was that a sentence?
"This," as a standalone sentence, offered in response to other content is an idiom, used particularly online, wherein the speaker expresses endorsement of the content the sentence is offered in response to, essentially, "this" stands in for the entire body of the referenced content and adopts it as the position of the speaker using "this" as well as that of the original source of the content.
Its not a sentence composed of words in their general meaning, its a special one-word idiomatic construct with a specialized meaning in a particular context.
You mean you did some kind of a survey to reach this conclusion?
This is all part of evolution, accept it and worry about things that are more important to you. I may find SMS lingo annoying but that is the way communication and language is evolving so be it. For a change, I like how people have started to accept that you understand the context of conversation and don't have to worry about someone interjecting questions like "Who are they?" in conversations.
So... I'm curious what you think about this case? ;)