That’s kind an argument for not caring about spelling and grammar. We can all tell what Xepp meant. The principle at hand is why linguists say that insisting on rigid grammar and spelling is pointless. Also, language evolves… otherwise we’d be saying thy and thou. Dialects other than the ‘prestige dialect’ spoken and written by people with the highest access to education are considered perfectly legitimate because all that matters is whether the listener can understand…
Please edit that to say “were”, it’s giving me an aneurysm.
Edit: downvoted for being right, typical Lemmy.
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“🤓” on people who know more than you to checks notes… show off how ignorant you are. Congrats.
You are absolutely right!
That’s because you can shove your aneurysm back where it came from. You know how it’s spelled correctly, just look over it.
Spelling and grammar are important. Language is only as useful as it is commonly and uniformly understood.
That’s kind an argument for not caring about spelling and grammar. We can all tell what Xepp meant. The principle at hand is why linguists say that insisting on rigid grammar and spelling is pointless. Also, language evolves… otherwise we’d be saying thy and thou. Dialects other than the ‘prestige dialect’ spoken and written by people with the highest access to education are considered perfectly legitimate because all that matters is whether the listener can understand…
Bill helped his brother, jack, off a horse.
Bill helped his brother jack off a horse
It doesn’t take much sometimes for a sentence to completely change meaning,l; at best we knew what he meant but struggled through it slightly.
Sure, that’s an example where we don’t understand the intent of the author.