• GrappleHat
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    982 months ago

    The chances of a deal are said to be weeks away, if not non-existent.

    What kind of non-sentence is that?

    • @tatterdemalion
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      232 months ago

      Seems like a perfectly cromulent English sentence to me.

    • @[email protected]
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      102 months ago

      The kind of sentence you write when you’re still 20 words from the target your editor set for the article

    • JackbyDev
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      22 months ago

      It feels like it’s saying “if rumors are true, the deal is weeks away.” A reminder that it might not be the case.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 months ago

      It means when the author was waiting for his order at Popeyes, the guy in front who did small talk with him introduced himself as a Gitlab employee and told the author “Gitlab might sell in weeks. It is a deal or no deal”