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 ====== Another Thing or Think Coming ======
-{{http://i.imgur.com/3O1Hehx.jpg|Another Thing/Think Coming t-shirt}}
+{{ :another_thing_or_think_coming.jpg?200|another thing vs think t-shirt}}
 Other than the Oxford comma, no language topic gets meme going faster than the debate over whether the phrase should be “You’ve got another thing coming” or “You’ve got another think coming.”
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 An early example occurred in [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/22095.html?thread=99283535#t99283535|November 2011]], when one nonny claimed they //“automatically judge”// people who write “another thing coming.” The first reply was from a nonny who stated they similarly judged people who write “another think coming.” This kicked off a long, though not especially heated debate.
-Someone therein linked to [[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004971.html|a 2007 Language Log post]] noting that the “thing” variant has been in circulation since 1919, the “think” one since 1937. (A [[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004972.html|subsequent LL post]] dates the latter to at least the late 1890s.) Both are, for all intents and purposes, acceptable. However, this has never stopped meme from wanking about them. Another blowup over the issue occurred in [[37586.html?thread=168490450#t168490450|July 2012]] and was significantly nastier, involving regionalism and classism wank, as well as an academic anon throwing their credentials around.
+Someone therein linked to [[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004971.html|a 2007 Language Log post]] noting that the “thing” variant has been in circulation since 1919, the “think” one since 1937. (A [[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004972.html|subsequent LL post]] dates the latter to at least the late 1890s.) Both are, for all intents and purposes, acceptable. However, this has never stopped meme from wanking about them. Another blowup over the issue occurred in [[https://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/37586.html?thread=168490450#t168490450|July 2012]] and was significantly nastier, involving regionalism and classism wank, as well as an academic anon throwing their credentials around.
 The subject came up again in [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/56701.html?thread=263170941#t263170941|May 2013]] and [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/73284.html?thread=347300164#t347300164|December 2013]], but nonnies were considerably more chill about it in both threads. In LJ Post #317 (April 2014), the topic [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/85241.html?thread=407753721#t407753721|came]] up [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/85241.html?thread=407874809#t407874809|twice]]; the first time was fairly mellow, but the second involved epithets such as [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/85241.html?thread=407877625#t407877625|//”illiterate halfwits”//]] and [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/85241.html?thread=407885817#t407885817|//”pretentious twit.”//]]

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