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[This image](https://i.redd.it/pukqoit0twa61.png) from the Hololive subreddit
has me scratching my head. It seems to suggest that there was only one way of
interpreting the tweet at the top of the image. I checked just to be sure but
according to this [Chiebukuro question and its
answers](https://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q11135205511),
し functions as a connective — i.e. I did A, _and then_ , B, similar to して. And
that being the case, I thought this tweet was deliberately written in a way
that you could interpret it in two different ways. In one interpretation, she
(the twitter user) would "finish the sentence" on her stream tomorrow. In
another, she won a PS5 and would talk more about it on her stream tomorrow.

**Is my interpretation correct? In other words — were both valid ways of
interpreting the tweet?**

**To be even more specific - their assertion that "当選し" doesn't mean anything
on its own can't be correct, can it? Surely the twitter user could've meant "I
won a ps5, and.. (to be continued in the stream)"?**

_(I know that technically, if し really was a connective here, there should've
been something after it that finished the whole sentence. As it is right now
the sentence is incomplete. However grammar rules are broken all the time in
casual conversations and online comments, so I don't think that's enough to
rule out the second interpretation. That's just my intuition however, so feel
free to correct me if I'm wrong.)_
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syntax casual particle-し twitter
Interpretation of し at the end of an ambiguous twitter message
It's just as ShuaiJanaiDesu in that image says. The image means people who
don't understand Japanese well thought Botan won a PS5 just by looking at the
word 当選. Botan's original tweet saying 当選し was deliberatively left unfinished,
and it could be either 当選しました ("I won") or 当選しませんでした ("I didn't win").

If there had been a comma after 当選し (i.e., `PS5は当選し、`,
[中止法](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/9771/5010)), people could have
excluded the possibility of it being 当選しなかった or 当選しませんでした. Since there is no
comma in the actual tweet, we can say the sentence may have been abruptly cut
off in the middle of a conjugation.
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