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Comment by guenlo

12 years ago

>off of

Learn English, and then we'll talk.

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eropple  12 years ago

"Off of" has been an English construction since the 1500s. It's entirely reasonable and appropriate in this context, much like contractions in informal written English.

But I'm fairly sure I'm replying to a throwaway account, so it's not like you were seriously interested.

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