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   Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 04-Oct-2024 23:54:55 JST Bread up, Bro
   lol, they're scared
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     Bridgelurker Kip (jedkron1248@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 06:47:36 JST Bridgelurker Kip

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     • Giga Vril Breaker
     • Boina Roja Enthusiast Karl Dahl
     • pepsi_man

     @Giga_Vril_Breaker @pepsi_man @KarlDahl @sickburnbro The simple answer is it should be "There have been."

     The complicated answer is digging deep back to English class, so bear with me.

     We can break the sentence down thusly:

     "{There} [have been] <a lot> (of rumors) (about the Helene response)"

     The basic sentence is "{There} [have been] <a lot>". Both "of rumors" and "about the Helene response" are prepositional phrases. They add detail or clarify what specifically you're talking about in the sentence, but they do not factor into the core sentence.

     The subject of the sentence is {There}, but it's a pronoun/dummy subject (apparently what it's called) that substitutes for the actual subject <a lot.> Because <a lot> is plural, the verb takes the plural form of [have been].

     Again, this is pulling from English class many years ago (and a little googlefu today) for the explanation but tl;dr it should be "There have been."

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     pepsi_man (pepsi_man@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 06:47:37 JST pepsi_man

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     • Boina Roja Enthusiast Karl Dahl
     @KarlDahl
     >there has been
     Probably correct in assuming she's brown. The verb "haber" and it's various conjugations get tossed around as "there is" and "there are" etc etc. Browns are too stupid to understand the different tenses.
     
     TL;DR brown ppl are fkn stupid
     @sickburnbro
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     Giga Vril Breaker (giga_vril_breaker@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 06:47:37 JST Giga Vril Breaker

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     • Boina Roja Enthusiast Karl Dahl
     • pepsi_man
     @pepsi_man @KarlDahl @sickburnbro Esl here. What should it have been? There have been? After all, the verb does not undergo declension in reference to the quantifier (a lot of) but rather to the noun (rumors).
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     Boina Roja Enthusiast Karl Dahl (karldahl@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 06:47:38 JST Boina Roja Enthusiast Karl Dahl

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     @sickburnbro "There has been a lot of rumors"
     
     Brownoid 20 something girl with masters degree running their Twitter account
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 06:49:03 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • Giga Vril Breaker
     • Boina Roja Enthusiast Karl Dahl
     • Bridgelurker Kip
     • pepsi_man
     @JedKron1248 @Giga_Vril_Breaker @pepsi_man @KarlDahl "There have been rumors about the Helene Response" would be proper as well.