• scops@reddthat.com
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    3 months ago

    While queue grammatically works at the beginning of your sentence, if you spoke it aloud, a native English speaker would interpret the sentence as beginning with “cue”.

    ie, “This comment will trigger (cue) some Trump word salad…”

    vs

    “After this comment, Trump will prepare a series (queue) of Trump word salad…”

    • boydster@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      I’m a native English speaker and this is ridiculous pedantry. Especially given the context. Word salad is a string of words, all delivered in sequence - all lined up, as it were, or even… dare I say… queued up. Why would anyone pick such a weird thing to argue about though?