Aside–Facebook can’t conjugate my verbs
Not that I’m a master of the English language, but I’ve managed to confuse Facebook’s verb-conjugating system:
That’s right “he love work.” When you update your status on Facebook, it decides that first person pronouns like “I” or “Me” should be automatically converted to “He” or “His.” Basically, the form prompts you with your own name to write about yourself in the third-person: “Elliott is: ________”. Then, it proceeds to butcher whatever you put into that form.
Why couldn’t it do something reasonable, like ask “Your status: _______” and then display to the work “Elliott’s status: _____ .” I guess that would be too obvious.
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