# An example of an "I accidentally a coca-cola bottle"-ism.

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**Created:** [September 30, 2008, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-example-of-an-i-accidentally-a-coca-cola-bottle-ism/465912 "2008-09-30T20:10:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-example-of-an-i-accidentally-a-coca-cola-bottle-ism/465912/21 "2008-10-01T22:27:15Z")

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> [@Baldwin](#):
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> And, as implied by an earlier poster, the word “relieving” is misspelled.
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> _Little Britain_ just hasn’t clicked for me, though I do admire the British talent for grotesqueries.

That’s probably my mistake rather than the original author of those words.

p.s. Firefox doesn’t think ‘grotesqueries’ is a word but [dictionary.com](http://dictionary.com) does so I’ll let you off.

Firefox also thinks ‘Firefox’ isn’t a word.

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**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-example-of-an-i-accidentally-a-coca-cola-bottle-ism/465912/22 "2008-10-01T22:43:14Z")

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> > [@Flander](#):
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> > “My friend and I are going out to the bar. Do you want to go with?”
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> That’s a standard construction in some dialects of English. Even if you pointed it out directly to your friends, they probably wouldn’t see any error.

Because there isn’t one. Implied pronouns are perfectly correct in many cases. In this case, “us” is understood to be at the end of the question. In fact, saying it would almost be redundant, since we already know you and your friend are the subject. What else would you mean?

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