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It may just be a game to you, but it means the world to us

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Re: It may just be a game to you, but it means the world to us

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Post by ykat7 »

tines wrote: post #2

Not to detract from the message here, but > It may just be a game to you but, it means the world to us The placement of that comma really irks me. Isn't "It may just be a game to you, but it means the world to us" the grammatically correct form? I'm somewhat surprised to see this in official communication from the Canadian Red Cross group. I feel like I've seen this "post-but" comma more and more recently. I guess pe…

> Isn't "It may just be a game to you, but it means the world to us" the grammatically correct form?

Yep, that's what I would go with. I can't see a use case for a comma after the "but" in British nor American English.

> I guess people feel like they would speak the sentence with a pause after the conjunction

Even this feels off to me when I read up to the "but" and then pause (as opposed to pausing on the "you").

Re: It may just be a game to you, but it means the world to us

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Post by wizzwizz4 »

tines wrote: post #2

Not to detract from the message here, but > It may just be a game to you but, it means the world to us The placement of that comma really irks me. Isn't "It may just be a game to you, but it means the world to us" the grammatically correct form? I'm somewhat surprised to see this in official communication from the Canadian Red Cross group. I feel like I've seen this "post-but" comma more and more recently. I guess pe…

It's correct in German, which otherwise has basically the same grammar as English.

Re: It may just be a game to you, but it means the world to us

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Post by throwaway894345 »

> In an increasingly uncertain world, this protective use of the red cross emblem has become more and more important. In the past ten years, there have been 162 fatalities among Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement personnel including two Canadians.

I don't understand how these two sentences are related and the article doesn't explain it as far as I can tell. They seem to be vaguely insinuating that video games appropriating the red cross logo have caused these deaths, which is surely an absurd claim but I can't figure out what else they might mean.

EDIT: A lot of defensive responses. To be clear, no one is impugning the Red Cross or disrespecting the work they're doing. I merely don't understand the reasoning in TFA.

Re: It may just be a game to you, but it means the world to us

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Post by tines »

wizzwizz4 wrote: post #12
tines wrote: post #2

Not to detract from the message here, but > It may just be a game to you but, it means the world to us The placement of that comma really irks me. Isn't "It may just be a game to you, but it means the world to us" the grammatically correct form? I'm somewhat surprised to see this in official communication from the Canadian Red Cross group. I feel like I've seen this "post-but" comma more and more recently. I guess pe…

It's correct in German, which otherwise has basically the same grammar as English.

That's interesting. Is the pause there in spoken German as well?

Re: It may just be a game to you, but it means the world to us

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Post by Tomte »

rurounijones wrote: post #5

Is anyone aware of some event that kicked off this posting? Has a particular game misused the symbol badly? It all makes sense but I am not sure if it has been submitted in response to some recent egregious misuse.

Many first person shooters and their health power-ups.

Also, my googling found this: https://www.thedrum.com/news/2017/01/17/indie-games-develope...

Re: It may just be a game to you, but it means the world to us

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Post by Lammy »

nuccy wrote: post #6
tines wrote: post #2

Not to detract from the message here, but > It may just be a game to you but, it means the world to us The placement of that comma really irks me. Isn't "It may just be a game to you, but it means the world to us" the grammatically correct form? I'm somewhat surprised to see this in official communication from the Canadian Red Cross group. I feel like I've seen this "post-but" comma more and more recently. I guess pe…

It seems they intended to make a pause after "but". For that purpose "..." instead of the comma, would actually fit better.

This looks like a job for—Emdash Man!

Re: It may just be a game to you, but it means the world to us

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Post by xvedejas »

bingidingi wrote: post #14

The green cross is generally the recommended alternative. Note that this isn't normal copyright, the red cross is protected under the Geneva Conventions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emblems_of_the_International_R...

A green cross definitely means marijuana dispensary to my eyes. Is it actually used elsewhere?
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