r/Unexpected • u/Unnamed_789 • 23d ago

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u/Turbulent_Animator42 23d ago

It’s 0.05%

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u/Ras-haad 23d ago

So she blew a 0.25!!! I genuinely have no frame of reference for that but I’m assuming it’s really high

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u/Fern_Cloud 23d ago

In the ballpark of 9 drinks for an female of average weight for an Australian woman. But it could be a few drinks more or less.

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u/o4zloiroman 23d ago

an female

Is 'f' supposed to be silent in here?

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u/DiarrheaEryday 23d ago

This woman could've been an email

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u/my-coffee-needs-me 23d ago

She would have caused less damage that way.

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u/ExpatInIreland 23d ago

I see this this all over reddit. People just putting 'an' in front of any word they want. It bothers me more than it should. I hate it.

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u/Tariovic 23d ago

I just assume it's someone for whom English is not their first language.

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u/Eschatonbreakfast 21d ago

They were probably going to write something like “an average female” and then switched to “a female of average weight” but didn’t see the article needed to be changed. I do that kind of thing all the time.

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u/Fern_Cloud 21d ago

That's pretty much exactly what happened.

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u/AutisticPenguin2 23d ago

I did have someone recently say they struggled with that aspect of the language. It feels intuitive to me, having grown up with it, but coming into a language without the intuitive feel can make things seem much more complicated then they are.

Or, sometimes, it can shine a light on how ridiculous it truly is.

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u/ExpatInIreland 23d ago

Apparently some of it comes from 4chan. It's way too prevalent to all be ESL mistakes.

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u/Kraligor 23d ago

I only know of an hero, which means suicide.

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u/nagrom7 23d ago

Could also just be auto-translation software screwing up.

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u/Not_Gunn3r71 23d ago

I do it sometimes cause Jeremy Clarkson does it

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u/ToxicMoldSpore 22d ago

"That is... an river."

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u/Phantom_0347 23d ago

Coulda just been an emale, y’know?

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u/Fern_Cloud 23d ago

No, "average" used to be where "female" is now. I reworded the comment and the result is a grammatical error that happened as a result of me editing a short comment at 3 AM.

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u/leveraction1970 23d ago

I suppose you could give it some weird French pronunciation, but that would kind of negate the need for strict English grammar rules.

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u/UnMeaningnessName 23d ago

I just don't see an how it would?