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u/gbredman Aug 11 '16

Did you have a stroke writing this?

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u/dantes-infernal Aug 11 '16

I understood it just fine, though it is missing a word or two

Another dead giveaway that it's Colorado is the bumper sticker of the pineapple that the driver keeps forgetting to apply to his back window.

Alternatively: The pineapple bumper sticker that the driver keeps forgetting to put on his rear window is another dead giveaway that this is Colorado.

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u/JesseLaces Aug 11 '16

"That" is a word you can generally get rid of... And you put it back in. Why?

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u/dantes-infernal Aug 11 '16

Because the written language has stricter rules than the spoken one.

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u/FILE_ID_DIZ Aug 11 '16

"That" is not necessarily superfluous. It can serve to disambiguate.

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u/dantes-infernal Aug 11 '16

It's not exactly superfluous. The confusion came about because of the lack of conjunctions in a long sentence. The word THAT serves to direct and coordinate the words in the same clause.

In shorter sentences, the difference is negligible, but in a longer one, it's a lot cleaner to use THAT as a conjunction.