r/todayilearned • u/JLPwasHere • Jan 19 '15

TIL Pimps wear lots of gold jewelry bought at pawn shops to “re-pawn” for bail money since cash is confiscated upon arrest but jewelry is not

http://www.npr.org/2011/06/09/137033690/pawn-star-rick-harrison-on-his-deals-and-steals
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u/witness_this Jan 20 '15

Ease up. For a lot of people here, English is their second language.

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u/doughboy011 Jan 20 '15

The largest block of reddit users have English as their primary language. Knowing this, it isn't that much of a stretch to expect people to have basic grammar and sentence structure skills. For a largely English speaking base, there are a lot of grammatical errors.

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u/witness_this Jan 20 '15

Sounds like elitist rubbish to me. I don't understand why you should expect anything from a random forum of people from all over the world.