There are some everyday English sentences that make me turn my head like a puppy trying to figure out what their owner is saying to them. Right now I can think of two examples of this:
- “It broke my mental”
- “I decided to embrace my masculine”
Aren’t these two examples missing something? My brain always feels like I’ve been sent an incomplete message with this type of sentences. I might be wrong but this is how I feel.
Update: I decided to pass this status through ChatGPT and this is what it concluded after a painfully over explained response:
Your intuition is spot-on. Those sentences are missing something by traditional grammar rules, which is why they sound incomplete. But in certain modern or informal contexts, they’re purposefully truncated for style, rhythm, or identity expression.
And now I don’t care about the syntax errors in those expressions but how triggered it’s sycophantic responses get me. Anyways… Have fun.