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There is no authority over the english language. Your set of grammar rules are certainly different from virtually everyone else. >People use grammar to judge y
by incomingpain 1y ago
There is no authority over the english language. Your set of grammar rules are certainly different from virtually everyone else.
>People use grammar to judge your education and intelligence all the time.
You really shouldnt judge others; like ever.
>And so it would seem that failing to correct someone else's grammar online is not just unhelpful — it is immoral.
So you're saying correcting someone's grammar is helpful and moral?
Nobody is stopping you from doing this of course. If you believe it is moral to do, then do it.
- firefax 1y ago>There is no authority over the english language. Thanks for this. I often see folks like OP very condescendingly tell people they're not writing "correctly", while forgetting that English is a constantly evolving language -- at a certain point if a "mistake" becomes mainstream, it becomes an acceptable one. (I'm struggling for more complex examples, but think of how people will say, declare "that's not a word"... well, usage of "not a word"s is how they end up going into the dictionary...)
- amichail 1y agoActually, we do now have a few tech authorities of the English language.