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Park sang joon Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

The infected/possessed/whatever look like that~

The infected/possessed/whatever look like they are wearing black-metal makeup for some unknown reason, which is kind of weird.

I was wondering how can "whatever" is used like a pronoun in my example.
Thank you in advance for your help.
  

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It's very casual, spoken and often careless English. The speaker is saying 'I think the word I want may be 'infected' or it may be 'possessed' or it may be whatever word you think may be suitable here'. It leaves the listener reader trying to figure out what the speaker means.

— Clive

  • It's very casual, spoken and often careless English.
  • The speaker is saying 'I think the word I want may be 'infected' or it may be 'possessed' or it may be whatever word you think may be suitable here'.
  • It leaves the listener reader trying to figure out what the speaker means.
  • Teenagers often speak this careless way, in my experience.
  • eg Mother: Did you have a nice shopping trip, dear?
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It's very casual, spoken and often careless English.

The speaker is saying 'I think the word I want may be 'infected' or it may be 'possessed' or it may be whatever word you think may be suitable here'.
It leaves the listener reader trying to figure out what the speaker means.
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