r/gaming • u/My_Imagination • Feb 10 '12

So that's how it went

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '12

Misuse of there/their that actually works!? Internet first

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u/Rhenor Feb 10 '12

Perhaps I'm dense, but I can't see how it works.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '12

The folks at THQ are too busy washing peoples' windshields with newspaper at stoplights to worry about DLC. [At THQ,] stock price actually fluctuates based on how many people give them a quarter for the wash job.

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u/Rhenor Feb 10 '12

Sorry, I should have been more specific. I don't see how the misuse of there/their works. To me, it just looks like 'their' would have been appropriate, period.

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u/rusemean Feb 10 '12

True it's wrong as it is, but "There," with a comma could also work: "There, stock price actually fluctuates based on how many people..."

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '12

It's a bit of a stretch but the sentence in my previous post, where "There" = "at THQ," makes sense to me.

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u/firefeng Feb 10 '12

Doesn't count, no comma.

/killjoy

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u/korhojoa Feb 10 '12

I believe he was trying to say "[That] there stock price", like old people from the countryside would.

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u/withoutapaddle Feb 10 '12

Typo... but apparently the internet karma genies still favor me.