What's wrong with this sentence?

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  1. clusteringflux Version 1. OH! Valued Senior Member

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    "I hate country X, and if I can't topple thier system I will move there and start a business to raise my family with".
     
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  3. redarmy11 Registered Senior Member

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    You misspelt 'their'.
     
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  5. clusteringflux Version 1. OH! Valued Senior Member

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    It's "you'ves missspellded Thy'er"
     
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  7. redarmy11 Registered Senior Member

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    No it isn't. What's with the opening riddle?
     
  8. clusteringflux Version 1. OH! Valued Senior Member

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    That is my question to you. It is a riddle, no doubt.
     
  9. redarmy11 Registered Senior Member

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    I don't like riddles. On the other hand, I love context.
     
  10. clusteringflux Version 1. OH! Valued Senior Member

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    Life is a riddle.
     
  11. Billy T Use Sugar Cane Alcohol car Fuel Valued Senior Member

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    Some silly English teachers might tell you not to end sentence with a preposition, but GB Shaw had a sarcastic reply to them:

    "Yes, that is something up with which I cannot put."

    BTW, why is this in the Busines & Economics and not the language forum? Or is that what is wrong with this sentence?

    I could comment more but need to rush to the language forum and discuss the probable inversion of the yield curve now.

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  12. Mr. G reality.sys Valued Senior Member

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    It fails to includeL "I hate my own country Y even more. And I wish I could make Y more like X so that X could be more like Y with far less effort."
     
  13. redarmy11 Registered Senior Member

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    Huh. That's your opinion.
     
  14. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    Does that make you the Riddler? :shrug:
     
  15. Spud Emperor solanaceous common tater Registered Senior Member

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    What's wrong?... it's too boring.
     
  16. Pandaemoni Valued Senior Member

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    I also think it should end "...start a business with which to support my famiily."
     
  17. peta9 Registered Senior Member

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    It makes no sense. Why would you move to a country that you hate and start a business where you "can't" topple thier system? Ridiculous.

    grammatically, you could place a comma between 'system' and 'I'.
     
  18. redarmy11 Registered Senior Member

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    It's a sentence written by a complete moron. What's more I don't think an answer will be forthcoming. Though I do hope he proves me wrong.
     
  19. peta9 Registered Senior Member

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    Obviously what's wrong with the sentence is it's contradictory. Also toppling a system is counterproductive when you need to work with a system to do business.
     
  20. Oli Heute der Enteteich... Registered Senior Member

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    "...up with which I shall not put"
    W S Churchill.


    Besides mispelling "their", you don't raise a family by starting a business - you need to have sex ideally...
     
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    God it's hot in here.
     
  22. Till Eulenspiegel Registered Member

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    "I hate country X, and if I can't topple thier system I will move there and start a business to raise my family with".

    The sentence would be more correct if it said, "I hate country X and if I cannot topple its system I will move there with my family so that I can start a business with which to support them."

    Their is a plural term that refers to persons not political entities and you should try to avoid ending a sentence with a preposition.

    It is not a riddle but more a cunundrum a question or problem having only a conjectural answer.

    I suspect you are questioning why so many people who avow their hatred for the American political and social system immigrate to that country in order to raise their families. Since I do not, in the words of Queen Elizabeth I, "have a window into men's souls", I cannot answer your question.
     
  23. peta9 Registered Senior Member

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    LOL, Please those who immigrate don't hate america or it's system. Maybe after they do.....
     

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