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minus-squareCryophilia@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down4·2 months agoMilitary writing is weird and follows different conventions than normal writing. That’s absolutely not how you write prose.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoOf course it’s not. I said as much above. It’s an example of the Flexibility of Language.
minus-squareCryophilia@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·2 months agoI mean sure, if you want to write things incorrectly no one is going to arrest you, but you’ll certainly get comments like mine.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·2 months agoYup. I can see that. Thankfully, there is no right answer for little things like this in English.
Military writing is weird and follows different conventions than normal writing. That’s absolutely not how you write prose.
Of course it’s not. I said as much above. It’s an example of the Flexibility of Language.
I mean sure, if you want to write things incorrectly no one is going to arrest you, but you’ll certainly get comments like mine.
Yup. I can see that. Thankfully, there is no right answer for little things like this in English.