This is the caption for a picture I posted online. It's of a burger branch in Asia t

[B45]

This is the caption for a picture I posted online. It's of a burger branch in Asia trying to imitate In-N-out in California. It says:

Hmmm... Take a wild guess! WRONG AGAIN. This is NOT "caliburger" and never will be; That cruddy, rinky dinky thing you call a burger should and will always stay where it belongs.... Quit trying to prove otherwise because your actions have only made you look like a small minded jealous little person that has NO knowledge of burgers whatsoever... So, pls just stop your pity begrudging and let my buddies and I have this delicious authentic in-N-out burger in PEACE. Will the REAL CALIFORNIA BURGER PLEASE STAND UP. ATTENTION. HUT..1..2..3..

It's just very casual and kinda like an advertisement in a way.

 

[Rover_KE]

Casualness does not excuse bad grammar.

'...let my buddies and ME...'

 

[B45]

Wait, I thought it was always supposed to be:

My friends and I... Not me...

No?

How does the rest of the sentence look grammatically? It's mainly for effect.

 

[B45]

Shouldn't this part be plural since there's more than one burger:

So, pls just stop your pity begrudging and let my buddies and I have these delicious authentic in-N-out burgers in PEACE.

 

[Roman55]

Wait, I thought it was always supposed to be:

My friends and I... Not me...

No?

I am not a teacher.

No. Would you ever say, 'Let I have this delicious burger'? I thought not.

When in doubt, reduce the phrase to its simplest form and it will become clear whether the subject or object pronoun is required.

 

[B45]

What about the rest of the sentence? Is it grammatical?

 

[Roman55]

I am not a teacher.

I think 'pity begrudging' should be 'petty begrudging' but otherwise, if spoken, it would be grammatical despite its very informal style. As written it has a host of other problems.

 

[B45]

Could you point out the other problems?

 

[Roman55]

I am not a teacher.

I'm referring to the erratic use of capitals, ending a sentence with an ellipsis, using a semicolon as a full stop, 'pls' instead of 'please', and so on. All unnoticeable in speech.

 

[B45]

But I'm writing it as a caption so it's not really spoken... The semi-colon is used wrongly here?

 

[Rover_KE]

You followed it with a capital letter, so it should be a full stop, and 'kinda' is not acceptable when addressing us.

 

[B45]

What if I change That to that?

And what do you mean kinda is not acceptable when addressing us?

 

[Rover_KE]

It would work.

'Kinda' is non-standard English. Say 'kind of'.