> Is it broken? Exactly: the the answer is an emphatic "No." There is nothing to be fixed; to imagine that there is some sort of Platonic Ideal English is abs

> Is it broken? Exactly: the the answer is an emphatic "No." There is nothing to be fixed; to imagine that there is some sort of Platonic Ideal English is absurd on its face - and in even asking the question of quote-unquote fixing it, you can really see the HN-stereotype penchant for a clear set of rules showing through. Linguistics moved past this a hundred damned years ago. Natural languages are not programming languages. There is no such thing as "correct"; as with any language, there is only such thing as the many-varied ways in which native speakers speak.