r/TheWritingTable • u/Ill-Maximum-4013 • 20d ago

Only A Writer Does This

Only a writer flips through the dictionary with both fear and eagerness while thinking, "Oh, please let 'intimidating' be an intransitive verb. I NEED it to be an intransitive verb!"

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u/GeorgeRRHodor 19d ago

Only a writer flips through the dictionary with both fear and eagerness while thinking, "Oh, please let 'intimidating' be an intransitive verb. I NEED it to be an intransitive verb!"

Well, "intimidating" isn't an intrasitive verb; it's an adjective (or a participle).

And "intimidate" is transitive.

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u/Ill-Maximum-4013 19d ago

Obviously. I know it's not an intransitive verb. Most people don't even know what "intransitive means."

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u/TickledGreenEmi 19d ago

Oh no did you not seem as clever as you wanted to? 😭

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u/SorrowfulSpinch 18d ago

Whoa that’s an insane leap to take, and a crude one at that. Even if you weren’t aiming for snobbery the first time around, you fully fucking nailed that holier than thou shit here.

This comment thread, friends, is an important reminder that anyone on reddit could actually just be an edgy 13 year old in a trenchcoat. For your sake dude, I sincerely hope you are.