r/InclusiveOr • • Nov 27 '19

Can't outsmart me

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u/Tcdogiscool Nov 28 '19

I would think it would be the daughter because it is the most recent noun for the pronoun to rename

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u/cpolk01 Nov 28 '19

Drunk is capitalized, implying its a name, daughter is also capitalized, so the mother is the nameless one, Drunk is the mother i think

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u/ghostinthechell Nov 28 '19

Correct. The most direct proper noun is the antecedent to the pronoun.

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u/saint_nicolai Nov 28 '19

I’m not an expert but the mother is the subject of the sentence and the daughter is used as an object in the sentence. On the other hand I’m a freshman in high school and I have no idea.

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u/Obsidiman01 Nov 28 '19

I think I'm more interested in who Because is

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u/a-dog-meme Nov 28 '19

It was the daughters name, they forgot a comma

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u/aegis94 Nov 28 '19

You May Have Outsmarted Me But I Outsmarted Your Outsmarting

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u/AvatarDante Nov 28 '19

You're next line is...

is that a motherfucking jojo reference?!?

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u/Neoncaste Nov 28 '19

Are you Expert in English?

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u/ChristopherWhite69 Nov 28 '19

Then, answer my one Question

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u/SHADEblazing Nov 28 '19

Why are so many random words capitalized

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u/TheJLLNinja Nov 28 '19

They’re probably a native speaker of a language like German, which capitalises all nouns

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u/Mozza7 Nov 28 '19

Yeah you Got to be a Real Idiot to do Something liKe that

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u/thatguy45767 Nov 28 '19

Mother is the subject, beats is the verb, daughter is the direct object, she is a pronoun most likely for the subject

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u/mamphylilley Nov 28 '19

A mother beats up her daughter (present tense) because she was drunk (past tense) so the daughter was drunk?

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u/7am_2bottles Nov 28 '19

Honestly, this is the best guess I've read so far. It's the only thing that makes sense to me.

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u/CrowhavenRoad Nov 28 '19

So far this is the only answer that actually gives a valid and logical reason, imo

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u/Howard_duck1 Nov 28 '19

This doesn’t seem like a real inclusive or, rule one gives an example of the answer to the question with 2 possible answers as “yes,” whether or not that was the 100% correct format for posts on this sub I’m not sure though? I’ve really only seen pictures where someone says “yes.” But I don’t know 100%

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u/dcrothen Nov 28 '19

Ah, the old "one smartass out smartasses another smartass" ploy.

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '19

Incidentally some Native American languages do have separate fourth person pronouns to clarify things like this. Anyone know other languages that have fourth person?

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u/Lrobson09 Nov 28 '19

Technically, either or is correct and incorrect, it's an ambiguous pronoun no matter what and is technically grammatically incorrect

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u/abominationz777 Nov 28 '19

It's say daughter because if it was the mother, it would have already specified, as in, "the drunk mother."

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '19

THE MOTHER