Playing hard to get doesn't work anymore

[u/SEVENS_HEAVEN_7]

[u/BoltActionRifleman]

started forming hard-to-get

I understand what’s meant here, but what’s with the use of the word “forming” in this instance?

[u/Ree_m0 → u/BoltActionRifleman]

I swear, half the English language posts across reddit recently have completely butchered grammar to the point where you basically have to guess from context what they're trying to say

[u/QiDeviation → u/Ree_m0]

And there will be a lot more of it! Education? Fuck them kids!

[u/GoblinToHobgoblin → u/QiDeviation]

I think it's ESL people lol

[u/No_Delay_319 → u/Ree_m0]

and i bet most of the posts that have proper grammer are just LLM generated or bots

[u/LexiconVII → u/Ree_m0]

Yeah. It's giving bad grammar.

[u/Beneficial-Category → u/Ree_m0]

I believe it's called "Literary devolution" which as my friend Raul said "it's great to deal with when English isn't your first language."

[u/AppleCrumble987 → u/BoltActionRifleman]

It is like a chemical reaction. Where mixing your friend with the act of seeing the friend they liked, a precipitation of being hard-to-get was formed

[u/Dreamanimus → u/AppleCrumble987]

Precipitate. Precipitation is the act of the precipitate being formed

[u/Technical-Box7645 → u/BoltActionRifleman]

It's like she's forming (a plan) to be hard-to-get.

[u/throwawayburner2424 → u/Technical-Box7645]

Nah I just think they don't speak English and meant playing but the word in their language doesn't match up 1:1.

[u/TrippingFish76 → u/BoltActionRifleman]

“started forming a hard-to-get plot”

[u/Bitey_the_Squirrel → u/BoltActionRifleman]

Have you never heard of the cromulent sentence “how is babby formed?”

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[u/PeyredB → u/BoltActionRifleman]

I wondered that too.