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> If native speakers say something, then it's grammatically correct. What if two non-native speakers say something and understand each other?
by LudwigNagasena 1y ago
> If native speakers say something, then it's grammatically correct.
What if two non-native speakers say something and understand each other?
- ricardobeat 1y agoThen they’re having a useful, but not grammatically correct, conversation.
- antonvs 1y agoIt may be grammatically correct in the dialect they're using. There's plenty of mutually-intelligible English spoken outside of primarily English-speaking countries which native English speakers would consider ungrammatical, but that's only relative to their own dialect.
- layer8 1y agoThat’s a pidgin.