I'll say what I said then laugh - think is the only thing that's ever made any logical sense to me with this one. Thing just doesn't make sense to me at all.

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That makes perfect sense, since the use of "another" implies a first, which would be the "think" in the first part of the sentence.
Exactly the logic that's always made sense to me. You're following on from the original think in the sentence.

But regardless of what's grammatically or logically correct, I think there's a colloquialism going on here that means some people are just used to hearing and using thing instead, whether it's correct or not. And that's a hard habit to get out of.

If I was beta reading or GEing a story for the Archive though, I'd suggest it was changed to think.


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Athos: If you'd told us what you were doing, we might have been able to plan this properly.
Aramis: Yes, sorry.
Athos: No, no, by all means, let's keep things suicidal.

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