• BynarsAreOk [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    Personally I think you "should of" stayed in school and learned proper English first. What's next you're going to l33t pwn tankies with your facebook memes next?

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        I could care less if the language looses intended meanings over time. :very-intelligent:

        • Golabki [comrade/them,undecided]
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          1 year ago

          Lol, one of my grammar teachers absolutely hated double negatives and “I could care less” among other things kids said at the time.

          It was a good way to derail a lesson, the next 10 minutes we’re guaranteed to be here talking about why it doesn’t work.

            • Golabki [comrade/them,undecided]
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              1 year ago

              I would disagree, but I don’t want to make a whole thing of it. Suffice it to say, rhetoric is the applied science of language, and grammar is the methodology within which it is applied.

            • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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              1 year ago

              formal, structured grammar the way it's taught in school basically doesn't exist in real speech so grammar teachers, whether they're aware of it or not, are occupying an incredibly fragile position. The lie could collapse any moment, washing them away in a tide of descriptivist chaos.

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Standardization of spelling is a conspiracy by Dictionary companies to sell more dictionaries.