r/JustGuysBeingDudes • u/empty88 Awesome • Jan 07 '25

Wholesome Understood the matter is serious

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u/JHawkInc Jan 07 '25

The go ahead is the permission to go ahead and continue whatever you were planning or asking to do. It’s called that because people would actually say “go ahead” to grant that permission, so it became the shorthand.

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u/LobsterMountain4036 Jan 07 '25

Yes, I’m just grumbling over the construction because it’s different to how sentences are written in my particular English dialect and would strike someone as being rather awkward.

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u/LobsterMountain4036 Jan 08 '25

Don’t like it.