it’s a semantics argument; my take - “cosplay” has existed for thousands of years!

This man has never stirred a food dish in his lifetime.

It’s almost like it’s impossible to demand respectful behavior while also being a kind, well-adjusted person.

There’s a big difference between “some people still talk like that” and “come on dude, all dudes still talk like that in private dude”

*Some* of the guys I know use this term but they don’t around me because they know I think it makes the speaker sound like an ignorant knuckle dragger (who legit doesn’t give a fuck about other people in general).

How is he not in the same generation as la russa?

Not to mention my least favorite manager of all time, Tony la russa, who had incredible success with 2 organizations. Also joe Torre.

You’re right!

That’s odd; I went to the best UC (obvs not berkeley) and university of California means berkeley to me.

I want to agree with you but women’s college athletics has gone hand in hand with title ix for the entirety of both’s existence.

Is this the dumbest thing ever or am I just a boring Earth-walker?

But people don’t like having to do stuff. Or something.

This is a semantics issue that could be argued all night. Softball at the NCAA level is to my knowledge exclusively a women’s sport (eh title ix isn’t about gender, yadda, yadda, yadda bullshit). It may be a loose application, but softball’s existence at umizz can be at least related to title ix*

Looked to me like he got knocked off balance by the foul and went with his momentum instead of trying to stop on a dime, which can be an easy way to suffer a lower body injury.

When has hockey ever *not* been populated by white dudes with obnoxious names? Gordie? Guy? Aleksei? Gtfo here with your white bread Canadian/continental ass name.

Punctuation is your friend.

I’m comfortable with my choices as a writer and an editor. I don’t make moutains out of mole hills and I don’t fix what ain’t broke. I also heed the value of language actually in use relative to language “at its highest form” whatever the Hell that means.

Style is too often concerned with subjective matters of taste. I subscribe to the KISS method. Editorially speaking, if it doesn’t make me pause and think “wait WHAT? is he trying to say here?” and doesn’t abuse a favorite word or phrase, it’s fine.

I think that is theoretically correct - but the very existence of style guides encourages jamokes like this bridge guy over here to try to fix others’ already unbroken and accessible sentences, because, hey, he’s been through post-secondary education and therefore has access to this arcane knowledge.

If you pay attention to the sentence you’re reading, you can tell it requires a modifier. The modifier that shows up at the end, therefore, makes perfect sense.