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Lol not ONE of those apologies were sincere!

posted 6 years ago by [deleted]
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During the gym scene when the girls wrote apology notes to each other, those apologies all sounded fake. Not just Gretchen's "I can't help that I'm popular" line but all of them haha.

1) " I'm sorry I called you a gap tooth bitch, it's not your fault you're so gap tooth."

- she apologized but still called her gap tooth at the end.

2) "Laura I don't hate you b/c you're fat, you're fat becuase I hate you"

-hmm idk about that.

3) "Gretchen I'm sorry I told everyone about your diarrhea and I'm sorry for repeating it now.

- Really Karen?!?!? Then why'd you repeat it!

4) Janis's apology was my absolute favorite as fake as it was Haha

[–] DanTUtilize (274) 4 years ago

Yes! None of them were REAL apologies. Even those same sentences had contradictions. The "I don't hate you b/c you're fat" line is one of my favorites in the film!

[–] sim7396 (120) 4 years ago

That's called COMEDY! Real apologies would have been boooring and turned the movie into a drama.

[–] R_Kane (15828) 3 years ago

“None” is singular, so none of them
WAS sincere.

Yeah, grammar matters. Grammar is logical communication.

[–] JBran (1583) 3 years ago

None Were vs. None Was
Rule: The word none is versatile. It has a plural sense (“not any”) as well as a singular sense (“not a single one”). When none is followed by of, look at the noun in your of phrase (object of the preposition).

‘None of them’ is perfectly fine.

[–] ExTechOp (2756) 3 years ago

Ouchie, R_Kane, ya burnt!

Yup, "none" is like "all" and other ambiguous nouns - depends on what it's "none" of.

"None of your business" - singular

"none of the apologies" - plural

But here's a weird one: "number"

"A number of students" is SINGULAR (I'm pretty sure), because a number is A number, a single thing, like a flock of seagulls or a clowder of cats.

And THEN there are the REAL grammatical sticklers who say that group nouns CAN be plural ... IF they act separately.

"The flock of seagulls takes flight and travel in different directions."

Yes, grammar is important, but grammarians (like me) are just ... sad.