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0 pointsqb458y ago0 comments

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my point exactly

qb45OP8y ago

Dunno, when you make egregious errors like that we can't help understanding not only what you meant but also some things you likely didn't mean.

mmmpop8y ago

It's been pointed out to me lately that "prescriptive grammar" is apparently classist/racist, which is strange considering I grew up dirt poor in Appalachia but still bothered to learn the difference in "who" and "whom". In languages like French it's a crucial understanding but English got lazy and for whatever reason, direct object pronouns are a tripping point for many students of a foreign language. Astounding.

qb45OP8y ago

You must be new to this planet.

It surely is. Caring about language (caring about anything, really) is an honest signal of status, whether you like it or not. Inevitably, some people will try to slave-moralize it away. If some social/ethnic/sex/... minority with inferiority complexes jumps on this bandwagon, suddenly you may find yourself caring about a thing whose ignorance some social scientists somewhere have found to be correlated with holy cows.

Proposed solution: stop caring about everything besides making all people feel good about themselves.

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collyw8y ago

my point exactly

qb45OP8y ago

Dunno, when you make egregious errors like that we can't help understanding not only what you meant but also some things you likely didn't mean.

mmmpop8y ago

qb45OP8y ago

You must be new to this planet.

Proposed solution: stop caring about everything besides making all people feel good about themselves.

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