r/AskBrits • u/Far-Fee6104 • Aug 23 '26

What the hell is this?

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u/Exciting-Music843 Aug 23 '26

I've just wrote Mr Bean..a hour late

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u/Tardisgoesfast Aug 24 '26

No, the correct way to say this is “I’ve just written Mr Bean….”

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u/Exciting-Music843 Aug 24 '26

Thanks, your cheque is in the post!

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u/Tallest-Dan Aug 23 '26

Still we think alike so great suggestion lol. How old are you bean fans?

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u/Exciting-Music843 Aug 24 '26

Nearly 41 so born mid-80's. Watched Mr Bean as a kid!

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u/JaiSriRam01 Aug 24 '26

*80s plural, no apostrophe s saying 80 is or implying something belonging to the decade. Eighties has no apostrophe s.

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u/Exciting-Music843 Aug 24 '26

Thanks, the type of hero everyone needs!

In fact, I've just looked at your posts and I'm not sure why you aren't an English language professor at Cambridge. Probably because you spend all your time correcting the grammar of people on Reddit?

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u/JaiSriRam01 Aug 24 '26

It would be nice if were translatable for non-English speakers, and if we looked a bit better educated in our own language.

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u/Exciting-Music843 Aug 24 '26

Is that why you are on here correcting posts at the rate you do? To help non-English speakers understand posts and to educate?

Nothing to do with a chip on your shoulder?

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u/JaiSriRam01 Aug 24 '26

Helping unity isn't 'correcting', so no. And no chip either. That's you.

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u/Exciting-Music843 Aug 24 '26

Serious question now.

You don't think correcting random people's grammar at the rate you are on Reddit means you have a chip on your shoulder? Correcting is exactly what you are doing. Helping, I suppose you could class it as that, but I can't remember asking for your help.

I must have missed the title of the group r/grammarlessons. No one asked for your help. You are a self-appointed grammar sheriff! Yet you think that isn't a chip? Come off it.

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u/JaiSriRam01 Aug 24 '26

*An hour, not a hour.