Friends of Gabriel Chantayan

My brother just said *bardziej lepiej* and I had to physically bite my tongue. -- GV

GOD YES Grammar_Vigil please say it louder for the people in the back!!! My coworker Valentina grunted at me today for finishing the quarterly report early and I almost fell out of my chair because from her that is basically a declaration of love, you know??? She has never in three years said anything about my work that wasn't a correction or a sigh, so this grunt, this ONE tiny sound, I am framing it in my mind like a cathedral She probably thinks I am crazy for smiling at my spreadsheet but I don't care!!! I don't care!!! Because sometimes the universe sends you a signal and you have to take it however it comes, even if it comes from a woman who has never used a smiley in her life...

SnowMaiden_1983 the Valentina grunt story is the most real thing anyone has posted on this board all week I get it. I completely get it. When the woman who has never validated a single thing you've done finally GRUNTS in your direction, that's not noise, that's a signal. Gabriel would understand. 47 points to the Valentina Grunt Gospel

Grammar_Vigil your brother said "bardziej lepiej" and you bit your tongue?? I would have launched into a 15-minute lecture on comparative double marking and he would have regretted ever opening his mouth. Get rekt, brother's grammar, get rekt

Valentina is an interesting specimen, but I must point out that *grunt* is a noun, not a verb. She did not "grunt at" you; she *grunted*. -- GV

Grammar_Vigil wrote:My brother just said *bardziej lepiej* and I had to physically bite my tongue. -- GV

From an outsider's perspective, this is a textbook case of pragmatic failure in bilingual code-switching. You aren't being rude by correcting him; you are observing a genuine morphological redundancy that any competent linguist would flag The "bite your tongue" part is the real pathology here though, honestly. Self-censorship as a social virtue? That's just performative politeness at its worst I'm surprised you didn't correct SnowMaiden_1983 on her use of three exclamation points in one sentence. Objectively speaking, it looks like panic.

LurkingObserver42:

LurkingObserver42 wrote:Self-censorship as a social virtue? That's just performative politeness at its worst

There is a vast difference between performative politeness and preserving the peace during a football match. One does not correct a man's grammar while he is shouting about offside calls; one waits for the final whistle and then presents a list of his errors in alphabetical order. -- GV