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by dozzie 3046 days ago
> As a German, you could not be more wrong [...]

Why do you think he's German?
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icc97 3046 days ago
They don't, I'm assuming they're speaking as a German. I'm a Brit living in Belgium.

I see the difference and I wish I could have the privacy of no ID cards back.

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dozzie 3046 days ago
> They don't

They do, or at least that's what they said.

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andrewaylett 3045 days ago
No, they claimed to be German, and _in that capacity_ responded to their parent.
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dozzie 3045 days ago
Not really. bayerrr said to icc97:

> As a German, you could not be more wrong [...]

bayerrr claimed that icc97 was German (this is how this grammatical construction works).

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icc97 3045 days ago
There is an inferred "Speaking as a German", so the author is a letting me know they're German.

But also as you pointed out it makes no sense for them to assume I'm German, but it does make sense if they are German. So I'd just assume the version that makes sense.

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dozzie 3045 days ago
> There is an inferred "Speaking as a German", so the author is a letting me know they're German.

Yes, there is the "speaking" part inferred, but the grammar still does not work like that. As a supposedly educated English native speaker, you should know better.

If I said: "As an idiot, you're wrong", I could not possibly claim that I called me an idiot. Why suddenly the subject would change in the very same sentence structure?

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