Tinder match just corrected my grammar

[FanGirlX]

I wrote "could have", he informed me it should be "could of".

Think he was trying to be clever 🤣.

Just ask him if he was joking first.

@Duvetflower

Reply It's could have. As in 'you could have got to go on a date with me if your grammar weren't shit'

Has the bonus of subjunctive too :-)

This is how my mind works too😆

I of
You of
We of
She ofs
He ofs
We all of

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The only think wrong with that is that if this is the standard of his Tinder interactions, he's doomed himself to be a non-fucking idiot.

Don't forget conditional past tense:

I could of ofed'; you would of ofed^ etc.

He really wasn’t joking - unless you’d already been chatting about you both being grammar pedants. That’s the only scenario in which this being a joke would make sense.

This is actually great.

His response to your correct will tell you EVERYTHING you need to know about this man.

Please let us know your witty retort

Maybe he was joking? Just maybe?

I am now desperate to know A) what the OP's response was and B) whether she got a response!

@BaronessBomburst

Place marking for the update!

And now I'm panicking; is it placemarking, place-marking, or place marking?
And I've started a sentence with a conjunction.
Twice.
leaves board never to return

I often read this board, though rarely post for fear of being shown up!

I deliberated long and hard about that comma!

If he’s joking, I think I quite like him. He’s pointing out you have better grammar than the general Twitter population.

@Moltenpink

If he’s joking, I think I quite like him. He’s pointing out you have better grammar than the general Twitter population.

I like the idea that the OP’s Tinder match was on another forum debating whether mis-correcting her grammar was likely to strike her as likeably ironic or illiterate.

I still feel she needs to provoke him into discussing furniture so we can see where he stands on Chester Draws.

(Personally, ‘draws’ for drawers bothers me waaay more than Chester.)

If it’s a joke then I approve as I like grammar jokes. If he’s just wrong then sweet Jesus. Block.

Because he IS wrong. It’s have.

What if it's not a joke, but he realises his mistake, so in order to save face he back pedals, 'ha ha, yeah it was a joke'...and then you're on a date with him. Because I'll warn you now if he's the kind of man to confidently correct your (correct) grammar, you'll be in for an evening of:

-who do you think would win in a fight: a horse or a crocodile?
-hilarious anecdote about the time he mooned at a nun
-'do you like threesomes?'
-weeping about how much he loves Lionel Messi

Tread carefully!

@MissHavishamsMouldyOldCake

What if it's not a joke, but he realises his mistake, so in order to save face he back pedals, 'ha ha, yeah it was a joke'...and then you're on a date with him. Because I'll warn you now if he's the kind of man to confidently correct your (correct) grammar, you'll be in for an evening of:

-who do you think would win in a fight: a horse or a crocodile?
-hilarious anecdote about the time he mooned at a nun
-'do you like threesomes?'
-weeping about how much he loves Lionel Messi

Tread carefully!

Worse than that, the waiter might say ‘Which of you ordered the steak?’ and Tinder Match might say ‘That would be myself.’

In which case the OP and the waiter can join together and legitimately kneecap him.

I wonder if his face is going to fall the moment he suddenly realises that his response to OP has gone down like a damp squid and he's actually seriously insulted her, when he meant to put her on a pedal stool. He's wrecked his chances right from the gecko.

Oh, there will be no rest bite from his wit, I bet.

How about, 'Yeah and you could have got laid'

Lovely thread

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@Chickenkatsu

How about, 'Yeah and you could have got laid'

Or 'layed.'

Farrandu, I think you need to go out with this man. It will be alot of fun and we will be on tenderhooks waiting to hear pacific ways you wound him up. If you have a husband/partner, tell them not to worry, it's defiantly for the greater good!

@MissHavishamsMouldyOldCake

Farrandu, I think you need to go out with this man. It will be alot of fun and we will be on tenderhooks waiting to hear pacific ways you wound him up. If you have a husband/partner, tell them not to worry, it's defiantly for the greater good!

But do be discrete about it.

@MissHavishamsMouldyOldCake

Farrandu, I think you need to go out with this man. It will be alot of fun and we will be on tenderhooks waiting to hear pacific ways you wound him up. If you have a husband/partner, tell them not to worry, it's defiantly for the greater good!

I just told DH (who has a PhD in Eng Lit) and he says fine, he'll take one for the team, and anyway, that I will beat Tinder Match Man to death with the leg of the table within minutes of meeting, because he will order an expresso, a panini (which he will refer to as a 'lovely sangwidge') and a bockle of water, after which he will 'need toilet'.

He also feels strongly that Tinder Match Man wears a grey leather blouson jacket and the kind of deodorant that hangs in the air like mustard gas long after he's passed.