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As a non-native speaker of English, I really dislike this idea. I indeed make this very error, but I prefer to rely on tools such as Grammarly to help me impro
by henvic 6y ago
As a non-native speaker of English, I really dislike this idea.
I indeed make this very error, but I prefer to rely on tools such as Grammarly to help me improve my abilities, than to other people to start accepting my mistakes as basically the natural mutation of the language.
Yes, a language mutates, and a simple language may be more welcome, but we don't need to force it. Let it happen naturally.
- dctoedt 6y ago> Yes, a language mutates, and a simple language may be more welcome, but we don't need to force it. Let it happen naturally. Isn’t that more or less what I said?
- henvic 6y agoThe way you said it, I imagine that you'd be willing to let a 'less errors' (instead of 'few errors') slip without trying to educate whoever made the error about this, if you were reviewing something (for example).
- dctoedt 6y agoI tell my law students that: (A) [as stated above]; (B) the cold reality is that they need to learn the rules of "correct" English, even those rules are often arbitrary. That's because in professional situations, others — including but not limited to hiring partners, clients, and referral sources — are likely to think less of them if their usage doesn't conform to those rules; and (C) When grading their work, I will deduct points when they don't use "correct" English, because part of my job is to help them learn to do so.