• @alienanimals@lemmy.world
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    681 year ago

    This Karen is an asshole, but so are the supermarkets who collude on prices and collectively steal from everyone else just because they can.

    • @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      -171 year ago

      so are the supermarkets who collude on prices and collectively steal from everyone else

      I hear you suggesting that makes it okay.

      If so, how much theft are you cool with subsidizing?

      • @settoloki@lemmy.one
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        131 year ago

        Did they change their comment or something because no part of what they say is claiming to be ok with this? Perhaps I’m reading it wrong

        • @alienanimals@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          If a comment has been edited, it will display a little pencil icon. I did not edit my initial comment, but I edited this one so you could compare.

          I think Corsican just got confused, but I suppose they could be using a strawman argument.

        • @interceder270@lemmy.world
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          -301 year ago

          Calling someone ‘a’ Karen is using the word as an adjective.

          Calling someone ‘Karen’ is using it as a proper noun.

          I’m guessing you just looked at the upvoted comment that said it’s not an adjective and assumed it was correct.

          For shame.

          • @rbesfe@lemmy.ca
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            71 year ago

            My brother in christ you need to retake primary school English and learn what nouns are

          • Applesauce
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            In this context, ‘This’ is the adjective, as it describes the amount of Karens there are in this sentence. Karen is indeed the noun in this situation.

            An example of using ‘Karen’ as an adjective would be: ‘did you how so-and-so went completely Karen on that clerk?’

            You visualize how so-and-so acted in a particular way towards the clerk. The adjective to describe the behavior was ‘Karen’.

            Hope that clears things up.