I still see blue checks in Twitter that need to reply with “*you’re” kinda bullshit. I do reread some of my posts and I see them littered with mobile edits or just bullshit language that only made sense to my brain at 2am. Thanks everybody for being chill about language. I still (wrongly) imagine that I’m very good with writing, and seeing my own writing some time after it’s been published is a nice kick of humility.
There’s a great pair of scenes in Django Unchained that summarize those types of redditors. In the first scene the slaver Calvin Candie bullies and ridicules one of his slaves for not knowing the word “reimburse.” Because he’s a cruel dickhead.
Later on when Dr. Schultz (who admits English is not his first language!) drops the word “panache” in conversation Candie can’t define it, making Candie look like a bozo.
Smug reddit types are the bad guys in a Tarantino movie.
It’s even funnier because Candie likes to boast that he’s a huge francophile, but when asked about a French word he’s caught up in his lies. Same with reddit guys who love to feel smarter than everyone else but fail to show basic intelligence.
“Don’t speak French you’ll embarrass him”