By what standard of English did you reckon my post incorrect? I appreciate your effort to cheer up your parent post, and to improve my language skills, of course.
(I'm not the language usage police, though I am fussy about correctly rendering people's names.)
I didn't understand your gainsaying about invalidating awe. Whether or not the poster's awe was a real and worthwhile feeling seems to me entirely independent of my opinions.
I find your aims admirable. However, I regret to say that for me the irony, and purpose of this comment thread, have indeed been lost.
> The subject was "this", referring to the comment.
While I understand your clarification being the intent, in the original context "this" is in its determiner form and not pronoun form. Would the addition of "comment" have been included, then I believe most (if not all) readers would understand its use as the pronoun form it is often used as well as being associated with the noun form of "comment."
More important than my pedantry was an attempt to illustrate how corrections in this medium can be interpreted quite differently based on the person. As you intimate, my example did not affect you adversely (which is great BTW). How the OP responded to your original reply indicated a different effect unfortunately. I am not judging, only providing my observation.
A quote I wish I knew much earlier in my life is:
A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with
constant use.[0]
The subject was "this", referring to the comment.
By what standard of English did you reckon my post incorrect? I appreciate your effort to cheer up your parent post, and to improve my language skills, of course.
(I'm not the language usage police, though I am fussy about correctly rendering people's names.)
I didn't understand your gainsaying about invalidating awe. Whether or not the poster's awe was a real and worthwhile feeling seems to me entirely independent of my opinions.
I find your aims admirable. However, I regret to say that for me the irony, and purpose of this comment thread, have indeed been lost.