What kind of layout of muddled Syntax does Starfire use in teen titans go?
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Starfire: "I have put the my name on the most exclusive of the websites"
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I'm flagging this for closure as Unclear. Robin tV, please edit your post to provide a link to the source so we can confirm whether you've actually copied the words correctly (i.e. the bad syntax is theirs rather than yours). And is your question merely about the typo (the is an obvious mistake - in which case this clearly didn't need to be asked on our site) or do you have an issue with something else (in which case please identify what it is, why you think it's problematic and what research you've done)? For further guidance, see How to Ask and take the EL&U Tour :-)
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I'm flagging this for closure as Unclear. Robin tV, please edit your post to provide a link to the source so we can confirm whether you've actually copied the words correctly (i.e. the bad syntax is theirs rather than yours). And is your question merely about the typo (the is an obvious mistake - in which case this clearly didn't need to be asked on our site) or do you have an issue with something else (in which case please identify what it is, why you think it's problematic and what research you've done)? For further guidance, see How to Ask and take the EL&U Tour :-)
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I'm flagging this for closure as Unclear. Robin tV, please edit your post to provide a link to the source so we can confirm whether you've actually copied the words correctly (i.e. the bad syntax is theirs rather than yours). And is your question merely about the typo (the is an obvious mistake - in which case this clearly didn't need to be asked on our site) or do you have an issue with something else (in which case please identify what it is, why you think it's problematic and what research you've done)? For further guidance, see How to Ask and take the EL&U Tour :-)
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I'm flagging this for closure as Unclear. Robin tV, please edit your post to provide a link to the source so we can confirm whether you've actually copied the words correctly (i.e. the bad syntax is theirs rather than yours). And is your question merely about the typo (the is an obvious mistake - in which case this clearly didn't need to be asked on our site) or do you have an issue with something else (in which case please identify what it is, why you think it's problematic and what research you've done)? For further guidance, see How to Ask and take the EL&U Tour :-)
– Chappo
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I'm flagging this for closure as Unclear. Robin tV, please edit your post to provide a link to the source so we can confirm whether you've actually copied the words correctly (i.e. the bad syntax is theirs rather than yours). And is your question merely about the typo (the is an obvious mistake - in which case this clearly didn't need to be asked on our site) or do you have an issue with something else (in which case please identify what it is, why you think it's problematic and what research you've done)? For further guidance, see How to Ask and take the EL&U Tour :-)
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Listening to a few of her clips, I would suggest she is fully qualifying her sentences and not using any idioms.
Consider what she means: I have signed up for a popular website (possibly the most popular website).
To "sign up" is a idiom in English meaning to register for something by (traditionally) signing your name.
Starfire speaks in the way she does because while she understands English as a language, she does not have any exposure to its memes or idioms. She probably doesn't use contractions for a similar reason.
Consider the phrase "you do you fam", or "the cat's out of the bag" for more obvious examples of idioms.
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The quoted sentence seems perfectly normal except for "the my name", but isn't "the my name" flat out wrong?
– bof
21 hours ago
@bof "Exclusive" is a pretty strange word for "most popular" as well since an exclusive website, by definition, would be restricting the numbers of people who could register on it. I'm not saying that this answer is wrong, just that the character has some serious errors written into her script to indicate an incomplete grasp of English.
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21 hours ago
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Listening to a few of her clips, I would suggest she is fully qualifying her sentences and not using any idioms.
Consider what she means: I have signed up for a popular website (possibly the most popular website).
To "sign up" is a idiom in English meaning to register for something by (traditionally) signing your name.
Starfire speaks in the way she does because while she understands English as a language, she does not have any exposure to its memes or idioms. She probably doesn't use contractions for a similar reason.
Consider the phrase "you do you fam", or "the cat's out of the bag" for more obvious examples of idioms.
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The quoted sentence seems perfectly normal except for "the my name", but isn't "the my name" flat out wrong?
– bof
21 hours ago
@bof "Exclusive" is a pretty strange word for "most popular" as well since an exclusive website, by definition, would be restricting the numbers of people who could register on it. I'm not saying that this answer is wrong, just that the character has some serious errors written into her script to indicate an incomplete grasp of English.
– BoldBen
21 hours ago
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Listening to a few of her clips, I would suggest she is fully qualifying her sentences and not using any idioms.
Consider what she means: I have signed up for a popular website (possibly the most popular website).
To "sign up" is a idiom in English meaning to register for something by (traditionally) signing your name.
Starfire speaks in the way she does because while she understands English as a language, she does not have any exposure to its memes or idioms. She probably doesn't use contractions for a similar reason.
Consider the phrase "you do you fam", or "the cat's out of the bag" for more obvious examples of idioms.
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The quoted sentence seems perfectly normal except for "the my name", but isn't "the my name" flat out wrong?
– bof
21 hours ago
@bof "Exclusive" is a pretty strange word for "most popular" as well since an exclusive website, by definition, would be restricting the numbers of people who could register on it. I'm not saying that this answer is wrong, just that the character has some serious errors written into her script to indicate an incomplete grasp of English.
– BoldBen
21 hours ago
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Listening to a few of her clips, I would suggest she is fully qualifying her sentences and not using any idioms.
Consider what she means: I have signed up for a popular website (possibly the most popular website).
To "sign up" is a idiom in English meaning to register for something by (traditionally) signing your name.
Starfire speaks in the way she does because while she understands English as a language, she does not have any exposure to its memes or idioms. She probably doesn't use contractions for a similar reason.
Consider the phrase "you do you fam", or "the cat's out of the bag" for more obvious examples of idioms.
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Listening to a few of her clips, I would suggest she is fully qualifying her sentences and not using any idioms.
Consider what she means: I have signed up for a popular website (possibly the most popular website).
To "sign up" is a idiom in English meaning to register for something by (traditionally) signing your name.
Starfire speaks in the way she does because while she understands English as a language, she does not have any exposure to its memes or idioms. She probably doesn't use contractions for a similar reason.
Consider the phrase "you do you fam", or "the cat's out of the bag" for more obvious examples of idioms.
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The quoted sentence seems perfectly normal except for "the my name", but isn't "the my name" flat out wrong?
– bof
21 hours ago
@bof "Exclusive" is a pretty strange word for "most popular" as well since an exclusive website, by definition, would be restricting the numbers of people who could register on it. I'm not saying that this answer is wrong, just that the character has some serious errors written into her script to indicate an incomplete grasp of English.
– BoldBen
21 hours ago
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The quoted sentence seems perfectly normal except for "the my name", but isn't "the my name" flat out wrong?
– bof
21 hours ago
@bof "Exclusive" is a pretty strange word for "most popular" as well since an exclusive website, by definition, would be restricting the numbers of people who could register on it. I'm not saying that this answer is wrong, just that the character has some serious errors written into her script to indicate an incomplete grasp of English.
– BoldBen
21 hours ago
The quoted sentence seems perfectly normal except for "the my name", but isn't "the my name" flat out wrong?
– bof
21 hours ago
The quoted sentence seems perfectly normal except for "the my name", but isn't "the my name" flat out wrong?
– bof
21 hours ago
@bof "Exclusive" is a pretty strange word for "most popular" as well since an exclusive website, by definition, would be restricting the numbers of people who could register on it. I'm not saying that this answer is wrong, just that the character has some serious errors written into her script to indicate an incomplete grasp of English.
– BoldBen
21 hours ago
@bof "Exclusive" is a pretty strange word for "most popular" as well since an exclusive website, by definition, would be restricting the numbers of people who could register on it. I'm not saying that this answer is wrong, just that the character has some serious errors written into her script to indicate an incomplete grasp of English.
– BoldBen
21 hours ago
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I'm flagging this for closure as Unclear. Robin tV, please edit your post to provide a link to the source so we can confirm whether you've actually copied the words correctly (i.e. the bad syntax is theirs rather than yours). And is your question merely about the typo (the is an obvious mistake - in which case this clearly didn't need to be asked on our site) or do you have an issue with something else (in which case please identify what it is, why you think it's problematic and what research you've done)? For further guidance, see How to Ask and take the EL&U Tour :-)
– Chappo
20 hours ago