Haven’t reads any posts in my hurry to write this.
People who misuse “would”. Ex. “So-and-so WOULD pick up his drink and has a sip.”
Soo… that mean you actually didn’t? This is no real serious annoyance, but I just can’t help but look at it with a weird expression for a bit whenever I see it.
But did she?
Tehya would scratch her head in confusion as she would read this post. She would then try to think up some form of witty response.
Yeees.
The way I see it, “would” is an invitation to interrupt, broadcasting:“This action has not yet happened, but will if you don’t do anything about it.”
This can lead to some funny cancer growths as the other party then “woulds” his interrupt, so the original person then needs to write two possible replies depending on whether that would realizes or not.
And dear god if those are phrased with woulds, because then the other person suddenly has four potential scenarios to think about.
Normally, at that point, people actually decide on an action. Queue enraged reply about powergaming.
Why not just write it as
Bob swings a strike to cut Jim’s head from his shoulders.
it invites you to interrupt but without the 17 Woulds in the middle.
Because elves feel safer in the woulds.
2 out of my 3 RP characters are Elves. I never use “Would” like that. : (
But your elves would use would, wouldn’t they?
Also… How many woulds would your would elves use if your would elves would use would?
Use ‘would?’ I would never.
Would it be possible for this to end?
I would make it end.
I would have guessed, that it would be you.
People who can’t be arsed to start sentences with capital letters. I just don’t understand it.
I used to avoid “tho”, until I learned it’s not some modern leet-speak thing, it’s actually fairly old, in the dictionary and everything:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tho
I’m pretty sure “would of” is just a distortion/misreading of “would’ve” (they sound similar, right?) that has become common over time. It’s more a dialect thing than a grammar error.
What really makes me cringe is people calling women/girls “females”… just kinda has a weird, clinical vibe to it?
Uh, meet me at 3?
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