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Lizard: They're not plurals.
Like the verbs in your second example.
Exactly like the verbs in your second example, in fact.
You can probably get irritated about people dropping the subject of their tiny little verb phrases, and about the use of the third person where first person is probably more useful, but you should be irritated about the right thing.
It's an evolution (in my hasty reconstruction) of the IRC (and related) command /me, where one could type /me fights [object], for instance, and it would be rendered to all and sundry as
*Red Frog Rising fights [object]
So, you have to learn to read the internet, where some kind of action-denoting mark, like *verb*, means /me verb.
Perhaps that will help you parse with greater pleasure... Or at least know what you're annoyed at. |
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