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People make grammatical mistakes all the time when speaking. E.g. inserting like everywhere.
by beojan 8y ago
People make grammatical mistakes all the time when speaking. E.g. inserting like everywhere.
- malnourish 8y agoSpeaking from a linguistics point of view, you are wrong. Those people are speaking completely valid English. Who are you to say that those are mistakes? Speaking is different from writing. Native speakers can make performance errors and definition errors, but they won't make grammatical ones. Further, words such as 'like' and 'um' play an important role in speech.
- beojan 8y agoIf your usage means you are misunderstood, or it is harder to understand you, that's an error. Like as a filler makes speech harder to understand.
- malnourish 8y agoYou can make definition errors where you misuse a word, like a malapropism or spoonerism. A native speaker will not consistently make grammatical errors when speaking. Linguists are essentially in agreement on this. I urge you to look into the study of language, languages are fascinating and many things are not intuitive.
- beojan 8y agoPerhaps you mean a careful, educated, adult speaker (by definition, since there's no governing body setting English grammatical rules). The term "native speaker" is ill-defined enough that there's no reason a native speaker can't make grammatical errors in speech. For instance, a child is a native speaker, but children make plenty of grammatical errors. Even adults misuse who / whom and was / were all the time.
- malnourish 8y agoWhom/who was/were are not at all related to English grammar. Your definitions are off.
- beojan 8y agoOf course they are. The first is about picking the correct case (this being one of the few words where English has cases) and the second is picking the right number (you being a special case since the second person is always plural in English). If this isn't grammar, what is?