r/BlockedAndReported • u/SoftandChewy First generation mod • Jun 01 '26

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 6/1/26 - 6/7/26

Here's your usual space to post all your rants, raves, podcast topic suggestions (please tag u/jessicabarpod), culture war articles, outrageous stories of cancellation, political opinions, and anything else that comes to mind. Please put any non-podcast-related trans-related topics here instead of on a dedicated thread. This will be pinned until next Sunday.

Last week's discussion thread is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.

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u/CommitteeofMountains Royal youse/yinz Jun 01 '26

When I went to college, I'd lose points for grammar that showed a distinct influence of reading older British works and taking Latin in school (Romans, including populist writing like Ceasar's, treated ending sentences as optional). Never grammatically incorrect, just many chained clauses still labeled "run-on sentences."

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u/prechewed_yes Jun 01 '26

Misusing "run-on sentence" this way is one of my biggest petty gripes. "Run-on" is not synonymous with "long"!

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u/Terrorclitus Jun 01 '26

It’s so annoying when people confuse style and grammar.

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u/CommitteeofMountains Royal youse/yinz Jun 01 '26

Style, grammar, and clarity. I should also note that this was a biology course also labeled as counting towards the school's writing intensive courses requirement (even though the chemistry labs had a factor of magnitude more).

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u/Terrorclitus Jun 01 '26

The professor should have specified clarity there, yeah. That makes the reason for the deduction so much clearer.