I know thushan's post was tongue-in-cheek, but the 'English is all about the bullshitting' line comes up often enough in armchair expert circles that I feel inclined to point out that although it is theoretically possible to get away with bullshit, you still have to be able to substantiate your bullshit, that is, if your teacher has any wits about them, then you'd better have evidence to back up your bullshit, in which case that kind of defeats the purpose of bullshitting.
Now, as for making up stuff, if you want to make up stuff, study Literature, not English, and I mean that in absolutely the best way possible.*
* That was not sarcasm.**
** No, like it actually was not sarcasm.***
*** No, that was not sarcasm either.****
**** Ok let me be clear about this, none of these statements are sarcasm, and neither will be any subsequent to this one.*****
***** This statement isn't sarcastic either, and neither was that clause, or the one subsequent to it, or the one subsequent to that. This post is not sarcastic, period.******
******* And that statement was not sarcastic.********
******** I am glad we've cleared up any ambiguities which might have arisen from the possibility that my statement might have been sarcastic.*********
********* And to be clear, that last statement was sarcastic.
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