• LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Never fear! The grammar fairy is here! 🧚🏼‍♀️

    “all but hurt” means that he felt all of the emotions EXCEPT for hurt.

    “all butt hurt” is probably what you meant, but would still need a hyphen (i.e. all butt-hurt) to distinguish between being a figure of speech vs his entire buttocks literally hurting.

    Grammar fairy flies off to rescue the next fellow in need 🧚🏼‍♀️

    • bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de
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      8 hours ago

      The Grammar Fairy is out of her jurisdiction here, trying to fix orthography problems. Learn some semantics, Grammar Fairy! signed, linguist fairy 🧚🏻