EDIT: you guys have dug up some truly horrible pisstakes :D Thank you for those.

To the serious folk - relax a little. This is Mildly Infuriating, not I'm dying if this doesn't stop. As a non-native speaker I was taught a certain way to use the language. The rules were not written down by me, nor the teachers - it was done by the native folk. Peace!

  • @EatATaco@lemm.ee
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    110 months ago

    however people use it,

    The way this is phrased, it sounds like you can’t be wrong. So I would just clarifying that if both the speaker and audience agree on the intent of the speaker, it’s correct.

    • @stoly@lemmy.world
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      110 months ago

      There is the concept of an ideolect and you can very easily argue that something is correct as long as some native speaker thinks so…