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hi internet neurotic friends, please comment on the grammar of the following sentence that i saw yesterday: "it's going to take some time for me to get used to it and i may never will"
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oh... the (arguably) best pokemon player just released a 4.5h video...
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i like it. i'm a professional editor and it would never fly for my purposes (kids books). but the meaning is clear and it has good flavor despite being gramatically incorrect.
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence
that "will" would bug me, I'd personally change it to "do"
@oopsiedoodle interesting! i will think about the flavour of the sentence... i agree the will adds some emphasis
@ghostscape yes the will is crazy, personally i would just delete it: "and i may never"
@owlroost i had a whole late-night delirium conversation during college (you know the type) about that horse raced by the barn sentence... i didn't know it was called a garden path sentence! it's almost the sentence equivalent of a shaggy dog story