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To: DUMBGRUNT

The ships don’t liquify, the cargo does. . .yet another symptom of the deterioration of our education system. This is not just shoddy grammar, it is shoddy thinking.


3 posted on 09/27/2018 8:26:46 AM PDT by gspurlock (http://www.backyardfence.wordpress.com)
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To: gspurlock

The article doesn’t say that. The headline has it in semi-quotes.

Tale a break.


10 posted on 09/27/2018 8:36:01 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: gspurlock

The ships don’t liquify, the cargo does. . .yet another symptom of the deterioration of our education system. This is not just shoddy grammar, it is shoddy thinking.

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It’s a Fake News click bait headline, but that doesn’t stop people from posting it on FR.


12 posted on 09/27/2018 8:45:31 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: gspurlock

And here I thought the ships could “liquify” like the setting on my blender.

I was thinking if we could get Harry Belafonte to load one of those boats, we could make the world’s biggest banana smoothee.


20 posted on 09/27/2018 10:04:11 AM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: gspurlock
The ships don’t liquify, the cargo does. . .yet another symptom of the deterioration of our education system. This is not just shoddy grammar, it is shoddy thinking.

No. It's a common figure of speech.

27 posted on 09/27/2018 11:51:24 AM PDT by nonsporting
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To: gspurlock

Ship Cargo that Liquifies ?

Fixed it for the idiots.


29 posted on 09/27/2018 1:21:22 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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