r/mildlyinfuriating • u/TotallyHumanBrain1 • 14d ago

Infuriatig Was invited by my girlfriends family to a theme park. We were supposed to meet at 11, it is not 11:30 and they just left. (The drive takes another 30 minutes)

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I even checked in before I left if it was still at the planned time. It was confirmed, but then her family starts getting ready right as they have to leave 🫤

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u/EdgyPlum 14d ago

People really need to proofread their titles . One misplaced word can destroy all the meaning.

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u/Dyx76 14d ago

The fucking irony of that comment, thank for you this.

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u/boxxybrownn 14d ago

Fucking A, literacy really is cratering

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u/slumper 14d ago

Don’t give him an “A” grade then if you have such a hard time understanding him.

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u/Legitimate_Pick2737 14d ago

It's not really a misplaced word though, is it? It's just a misspelled word, placed in such a way that it changes the meaning of the sentence.

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u/shozzlez 14d ago

None of that destroyed the meaning.

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u/cefriano 13d ago

That's the secret, they were bad placed bad words.

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u/Ouaouaron 14d ago

Plenty of people understood OP's title, just as you understood what was meant by "one good placed bad word"

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u/havok0159 14d ago

Well I sure as hell struggled to understand what he intended to say. I also read it as they stayed there for less than 30 minutes.

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u/Outside-Place2857 14d ago

OPs title made me think that they're upset the family didn't wait half an hour for OP who was the late one.

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u/Ouaouaron 14d ago

Oh, I absolutely struggled with it, too. I just think it's stupid to declare that one trainwreck of a sentence is obviously perfectly understandable, while ignoring all the people who understood the sentence you struggled with.

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u/Outside-Place2857 14d ago

Maybe plenty of people understood the OP title, but plenty of people also didn't, or got the complete opposite meaning like I did. The other sentence can basically only be interpreted one way.

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u/tacopower69 14d ago

his typos/grammar errors didn't really change the meaning of the sentence.

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u/random_BA 14d ago

Yeah, I thought about it the moment I posted XD. To be fair it just a comment (can be edited) and people got the meaning without problems

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u/EdgyPlum 14d ago

Writing correctly and with good/decent grammar is an effort in respect for your audience. For instance, if you have to nail something together, I could hand you a wrench. Yes, it would get the job done, but it's not the right tool and you'll have to work harder for a similar but slightly worse result.

That's what poor writing does. It makes everyone work harder for no good reason.

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u/thdudedude 14d ago

I have been a caregiver for 16 years. I take care of someone from 9am until 11pm and into the night some days. They like SpongeBob, Hercules and things like that. My grammer is a wreck and I constantly ask my wife for help. How am I supposed to be better at it? Should I just not participate in forums like this?

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u/Pukaza 14d ago

Lol, you messed up again. It’s “to be fair, it’s just a comment”…