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It's not proper English. The grammar is purposefully incorrect as a way of emphasising that you have "no idea what it is". I'm not sure how it's supposed to e

• TeMPOraL 11y ago
  It works up until the incorrect grammar becomes the correct grammar, because language evolution.
  • andrelaszlo 11y ago
    Yes I was kind of wondering if this is a new thing, like because[0,1,2] or if it's canonical English. I was looking for an analysis like [0] on this, but I couldn't find any. 0: http://allthingslinguistic.com/post/72252671648/why-the-new-because-isnt-a-preposition-but-is http://allthingslinguistic.com/post/72252671648/why-the-new-... 1: http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/because-as-a-preposition http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/because-a... 2: https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/because-has-become-a-preposition-because-grammar/ https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/because-has-becom...
  • bshimmin 11y ago
    For any non-English speakers, there's a subtle joke here: really you should say "because of <noun>" or "because <noun verb>" (or any grammatically valid clause), so in this case it ought to be "because of language evolution" or "because language evolves". The "because <noun>" construct is a fairly recent thing, I think. The Atlantic "goes long" on it here: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/11/english-has-a-new-preposition-because-internet/281601/ http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/11/englis...