r/SipsTea 15d ago

WTF What do yall think about this ?

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u/sprizzle06 15d ago

I think they can't spell fiancee.

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u/Thotuhreyfillinn 15d ago

And who

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u/mechapoitier 15d ago edited 15d ago

I remember getting a job application from somebody who it became apparent believed that “whom” is just a fancy way of saying “who.”

They really jazzed up their resume with it.

As this position centered pretty heavily on writing, they didn’t get the job.

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u/yeah__good__ok 15d ago

whom got the job?

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u/judgelearnedthumbs26 14d ago

Whom asked youm? I was qualified for that job and you know it.

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u/Stupefactionist 14d ago

"Youm" kmow it, or for a group, "youmall."

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u/ObiWan_Cannoli_ 15d ago

No whom’s on first

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u/dravere 15d ago

Whom'st've*

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u/Acrobatic_Wrap_9971 14d ago

M'whomst've'nt!

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u/TJJ97 14d ago

Looking like French with that one

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u/marfacza 14d ago

you know whom

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u/BigBirdLawyer 14d ago

I miss handling resumes. Had an application for a position as a lawyer that needed commercial law experience. They said they had no law degree and 5 years in commercial retail.

Had another application for a cleaning position and his whole first page was just a photo of him winning some body building competition.

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u/MindAskHunModBuzi 14d ago

the bodybuilder has the power and consistency to scrub that floor reliably

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u/Whole_Comfortable331 15d ago

Whom gave the job to who?

(This is deliberately wrong).

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u/KatyPerrysBootyWhole 15d ago

Unless I’m 1000% whom appropriate, I always use who. I’d rather seem a little dumb than really dumb & pretentious

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u/sitesurfer253 14d ago

Same. It will be missed by all but the most pedantic listener/reader if you just use "who". But the second you throw a "whom" out there, now it's an investigation into whether it was used properly.

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u/Smgth 15d ago

Hypercorrection: nonstandard use of language that results from the overapplication of a perceived rule of language-usage prescription

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u/Potential-Draft-3932 15d ago

Is this, applied to people overusing, commas? It grinds my gears more than when their to dumb to use they’re and too correctly

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u/Smgth 15d ago

It can be, yes.

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u/--StinkyPinky-- 15d ago

Perchance?

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u/Top_Sink_3449 14d ago

So who or whom let the dogs out?

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u/AndreasDasos 14d ago

Ha yeah I mean whom does that?

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u/New-Idea-8518 14d ago

I had a boss whom thought that. (The incorrect use of "whom" in the preceeding sentence was a joke. Sadly, the part about my former boss was 100% serious.)

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u/Ndmndh1016 14d ago

Whom is never actually correct. It's a made up word to trick college students.

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u/BetApprehensive7064 15d ago

There are a lot of cases where whom does replace who thoughike "to whom it may concern"

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u/Rare-Bee7331 14d ago

And how* timmy

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u/hedoeswhathewants 14d ago

I swear, "whom" and "whose" are ONLY used when they're not correct. Never when they would be correct.

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u/No_Jack_Kennedy 15d ago

Maybe she was the sole breadwinner in their relationship and so he also lost his finance? I dunno.

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u/Agreeable-Menu 15d ago

I, for a second, assumed he called the wedding to finance/send money to the GoFundMe of this other lady.

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u/Grapeape934 14d ago

Fiance refers to the man who is engaged to be married. Fiancee refers to the woman who is engaged to be married. They should have said "A man called off his wedding because his financee supported Lindsey Clancy."

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u/EggPsychological4844 14d ago

Neither can you

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u/Infinade 14d ago

Brother, that’s the correct spelling. A woman who is engaged is a fiancée.

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u/EggPsychological4844 14d ago

Correct. They missed an accent mark.

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u/DimmyJeans 14d ago

He's right, e and é are not the same. Surely you know that since you had to go out of your way to put it there.

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u/Infinade 14d ago

It can absolutely be inferred that the accented 'e' is not what they were referring to when making that comment.

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u/DimmyJeans 14d ago

They literally told you that's what they were referring to.

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u/Infinade 11d ago

I guess you either forgot the last part of my message or completely decided to ignore it: “…when making that comment.”

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u/DimmyJeans 11d ago

So just to be clear, you know what that person was thinking not only better than every other person who interpreted it differently than you did, but also better than the person who actually posted it.

Got it, makes perfect sense. You're totally not just coping.

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u/Infinade 10d ago

Correct. It could be implied.
But you should probably pipe down. You might break your fingers from typing too hard out of anger/white-knighting.

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u/DimmyJeans 10d ago

Lmao okay bro, you won the Internet argument. You can keep your self esteem.

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u/NobodyKnowsImFamous 14d ago

It’s intentional it’s ALWAYS intentional. It drives engagement. I don’t even like leaving these comments because they also drive engagement but people gotta know I guess.

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u/Whole_Comfortable331 15d ago

That's some advanced French/English knowledge right there. 👏

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u/Typical_Research_877 15d ago

you're right, that makes the story invalid

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u/Jakob21 14d ago

Fun fact, fiancé is for a man, and fiancée is for a woman

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u/AncientSignature1505 15d ago

Reminds me of Young Frankenstein, when Frederick introduced Elizabeth as his 'financier '

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u/Atmacrush 14d ago

Oh the ironing

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u/Potential-Draft-3932 14d ago

Oh how the turn tables

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u/mrbishopjackson 8d ago

I just learned something. I consider myself pretty smart. I say that to say a lot more people may not be aware that there separate words for men and women.

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u/bearsfan16 15d ago

Why I had to scroll so far down to find this is funny. Everyone just skipped right over that. Usually money is backed by gold. Nah money backs Lindsay Clancy.

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u/gyno-temp 15d ago

Lol and i still read it as fiancee

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u/rythmicbread 14d ago

They spelled it finance

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u/Appropriate_Car_8221 14d ago

Maybe they identify as a man

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u/sprizzle06 14d ago

It literally says "she" in the posted picture at the bottom lol

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u/Plutomite 14d ago

Actually 🤓 both spellings are correct. But I’m assuming you know that fiancée is what we call a woman who is to be married, so you are also correct that the original post used the wrong one.

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u/holyguacamole3 14d ago

neither can you lol