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I completely agree with baddox. It is the incorrect use of the word "easy" when there is a perfectly good word "easily" at hand. "I can do that. Easy." I would
by cromulent 17y ago
I completely agree with baddox. It is the incorrect use of the word "easy" when there is a perfectly good word "easily" at hand. "I can do that. Easy." I would accept.
However, this is an interesting point. Good grammar used to be set by those who who were either educated or at the top of society. There were not many recordings of people using bad grammar, by definition.
Now we have a million recordings of "i can haz cheezburger". I fear that the mechanism you describe - actual recorded use - has been opened by the web to all, and good grammar in times to come may be dictated by YouTube comments.
- RyanMcGreal 17y agoI can see your point, but even the notable works of highly-educated classical writers regarded as producing the best of English literature are rife with the most egregious violations of prescriptive grammar.