• Chariotwheel@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    Realistically it’s not just people who genuinely want to help Ukraine over there, but scum that just comes to fuck shit up and want to live their video game fantasies. No doubt there are a number of POS among the volunteers.

    I distinctly remember a situation where American volunteers executed a surrendering, unarmed Russian soldier to the horror of the European volunteers in the group and leading to the rest of the Russians stopping their surrender and going out fighting instead: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/10phb3z/rcombatfootage_believes_they_can_handle_the_truth/

    There is a big difference in attitude that is taught between the American and European armies.

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      10 months ago

      No, I didn’t. I don’t know who teaches people that commas represent small pauses in speech, but they’re not helping.

      That’s what the ellipsis is for. If you want to correctly do fake Shatner you do

      “This… means… that, Mr. Spock”.

      That’s where the comma should go, by the way. You use it to separate the vocative. I had to use a period in the incorrect sentence above just to avoid the redundancy with the incorrect ones splitting the verb from the subject and the object.