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- Jan 25, 2021
Bob. Bobby. Bobbo. My 21st century spheroid man. Hold on a second, I got something to share. (Oh, hell, EVERYONE is getting a quote notification today....)
*didn't
*ain't
*You're
*ain't again
Learn what an apostrophe is, you fat retard.
Robert Chipman: university graduate: can't spell "hell".
Or, rather doesn't proofread tweets. Or is too fat to not miss the apostrophe key.
Eh, it actually makes sense if you know nerd shit. "Grok" is a word from Stranger in a Strange Land, that literally means a sort of ritual cannibalism but more broadly means to absorb the essence of something. It found its way into geek lingo for decades, although you don't hear it much these days. Saying "I grok you" as a way of saying "I really get and understand you" was once relatively common in those circles.
The problem is that he spells it with an apostrophe, because this alleged writer does not fucking know punctuation.
Normally I ignore poor grammar on Twitter for the same reason I ignore poor social graces on the short bus, but "Get's"? Sticking an apostrophe on a present-tense verb is a unique failure.
A terrible pun and an inappropriate use of the apostrophe! Bob's wretched writing never fails to disappoint.
I'm sitting here, staring at that for a minute, sure Bob's fucked up the apostrophe again but my head just refuses to acknowledge what it's seeing.
Er'go.
Er'go.
To summarize:
aint
didnt
your ("you are")
he'll (the place demons live)
it's (possessive)
get's
er'go
grok's (as in "I grok/you grok/he groks")
And that's just the small part of his output our tireless @Positron has capped and posted, further cut down by being the times we then commented on it so I could find it with a text search, further cut down by me deciding I had made my point and I shouldn't quote notify another half-dozen of us.