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iamawug replied to your post: Just saw the stupid hoe post, and while I agree, am I the only one noticing the irony? As we know, in linguistics (excluding historical linguistics), an asterisk preceding a sentence is used to show that it is not “grammatically correct”. So if this was read in a linguistic manner, wouldn’t it mean that the Internet thinks “you’re” is incorrect whereas linguists think “you a” is wrong? I’m probably just being pedantic, but I happen to find this coincidence kinda funny.
Really? I thought an asterisk preceding was the equivalent of saying something like, “Correction: you’re”. To say that an asterisk denotes “incorrect” grammar you would have to say it in regards to the previous sentence, not the following one.
That’s the convention online (and is the one used by the OP). In linguistics, though, an asterisk before a sentence usually means that it’s been deemed unacceptable to speakers for some reason, a la:
I eat ice cream.
*I eats ice cream.
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iamawug said:
ORLY?! WOW…I did not know that…how incredibly funny, lol…that it’s the same symbol yet they are basically the antithesis of each other, haha
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