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fallingOff on Nov 20, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: English Has a New Preposition, Because Internet

I added bacon to my milkshake because delicious/awesome.

In the sentence above, "because" is followed by an adjective phrase. Prepositions are never followed by adjective phrases, so "prepositional because" is a misnomer for this new construction and does not fully describe its range of uses. I have no suggestions for a better name though...

I've never heard this construction in speech, but maybe I don't hang out with enough nerdy internet types.

kzrdude on Nov 20, 2013 [–]

I think you need to say it like this to really be in spirit:

> I added bacon to my milkshake because bacon.

kzrdude on Nov 20, 2013 | [–]

oi this is disturbing. "because bacon" already had tons of uses in the comment thread already. I didn't see that!

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