- Joined
- Aug 20, 2009
- Messages
- 50,710
- Reaction score
- 35,539
Captain Pedantic is getting a bit of a mental cramp over this sentence. I can't find any technical flaw. It strikes me as inelegant, but that's hardly a fair criticism, particularly in a semi real time back and forth. It doesn't explain Captain Pedantic's rather visceral reaction. Can may or may not be redundant depending upon your intent, but it's presumptuous to assume error, There's is incongruent but arguably acceptable, so again, no call on the play.There's people who believe evidence and people who insist that what they can clearly see didn't happen.
Eureka!
It's the lack of correspondence between the this and the that in your "there's this and there's that" construction.
Captain Pedantic blames the drugs for the delayed realization and suggests, "There's people who believe... and people who believe [what Trump says] despite what they clearly see."
Sorry, but otherwise it would have bugged me all night.