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Yes but I think a soft resistance is still necessary in a society towards language errors otherwise the language becomes too fluid to be usable and understandab
by prmoustache 3y ago
Yes but I think a soft resistance is still necessary in a society towards language errors otherwise the language becomes too fluid to be usable and understandable. Where to draw the line between information and rudeness is the difficult part.
You don't need to jail or slap someone in the face for using less instead of fewer but you don't want gynecologist to mean oncologist and cancer to mean gonorrhea from one week to another otherwise nobody knows what we are talking about.
- _a_a_a_ 3y agoAgreed, but is less vs fewer worth anything, really?
- prmoustache 3y agoYou can always shrug it off, possibly what most readers have done.
- _a_a_a_ 3y agoAn odd thing, for a native English speaker to be given advice on the language by someone who is learning it, no? In English there is both essential plumbing and pointless ornament, and I wish for that distinction to be recognised because confusing the two is damaging.
- prmoustache 3y agoI am not the one who corrected the comment. I am only someone who said that this correction had a value and I am not telling you how you have to speak english.
- _a_a_a_ 3y agoMy point was thatin my opinion I did not believe the correction had value. I was categorising it as a pointless ornament rather than something actually useful. But I emphasise, that's just my view.