Timeline for What is the difference between "Donald Trump just got shot at!" and "Donald Trump just got shot!"?
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| Jul 16 at 20:26 | comment | added | Joe | When the guy who says, "Donald Trump got shot at" starts writing in iambic pentameter, we'll talk. | |
| Jul 16 at 20:04 | comment | added | TonyK | @Joe: Does Shakespeare count as poor English in your estimation? Just in Hamlet's soliloquy, we have (i) "The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks / That Flesh is heir to"; and (ii) "And makes us rather bear those ills we have, / Than fly to others that we know not of?" | |
| Jul 16 at 8:09 | comment | added | aantia | @Joe I direct you to Churchill's wisdom on the subject of prepositions (with which you are probably familiar, but I'll take any excuse). Personally I would take issue with the word 'got'. It's unnecessary, it adds the implication that the shooting may have been accidental or even self-inflicted, and it makes the speaker sound uneducated. | |
| Jul 16 at 2:52 | comment | added | Joe | Or if the shade of meaning is critical to you, then, "Someone shot at Donald Trump". No need to use passive. | |
| Jul 16 at 2:33 | comment | added | Joe | I don't propose amending it. I propose removing the "at" as the person who edited it did. As for the rule, mostly it was ignored by people who didn't pay attention in English class. | |
| Jul 16 at 0:34 | comment | added | TonyK | @Joe: How do you propose amending "Donald Trump just got shot at" to avoid ending the sentence with a preposition? It can't be done. The rule was always ridiculous, and ignored by anybody with a feel for the English language. | |
| Jul 15 at 21:25 | answer | added | user8356 | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jul 15 at 20:44 | comment | added | Weather Vane | @RussellBorogove that information has surfaced since the initial report, which was that a bullet nicked his ear. | |
| Jul 15 at 19:56 | comment | added | Joe | For many years, ending a sentence with a preposition was considered poor English. So #1 would be rejected. But over time as the language perpetually is dumbed down to the lowest common denominator, what used to be mark of a poor education becomes ignored, rationalized, and then accepted. Eventually we will all speak in emoticons. :-) | |
| Jul 15 at 17:33 | comment | added | Russell Borogove | @WeatherVane Unclear, but it seems he was not shot (= hit by a bullet), but rather nicked by flying glass from the teleprompter. A quibble, but it's a question about a quibble. | |
| Jul 14 at 21:52 | comment | added | Weather Vane | DJT was both shot and shot at. Several shots were fired, only one of which one hit Trump but others caused fatalities. | |
| Jul 14 at 17:29 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jul 14 at 16:18 | answer | added | Lambie | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 14 at 16:13 | comment | added | Lambie | You can shoot someone or you can shoot at someone. | |
| Jul 14 at 15:59 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
removed the shouting title (block capitals is considered rude and akin to shouting)
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| Jul 14 at 15:23 | comment | added | Kai Burghardt | This question is similar to: Shoot, Shoot At. If you believe it’s different, please edit the question, make it clear how it’s different and/or how the answers on that question are not helpful for your problem. | |
| Jul 14 at 10:46 | answer | added | TimR | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jul 14 at 10:41 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jul 14 at 3:27 | vote | accept | otakutyrant | ||
| Jul 14 at 3:11 | review | Low quality posts | |||
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| Jul 14 at 3:00 | answer | added | Seowjooheng Singapore | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jul 14 at 2:58 | answer | added | Mary | timeline score: 28 | |
| Jul 14 at 2:46 | history | asked | otakutyrant | CC BY-SA 4.0 |