• UlyssesT
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    19 days ago

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    • Golabki [comrade/them,undecided]
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      2 years 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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          2 years 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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          2 years 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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      2 years ago

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