• Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Military writing is weird and follows different conventions than normal writing. That’s absolutely not how you write prose.

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      2 months ago

      Of course it’s not. I said as much above. It’s an example of the Flexibility of Language.

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        2 months ago

        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.

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          2 months ago

          Yup. I can see that. Thankfully, there is no right answer for little things like this in English.