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To: discostu

BS, you’re defending subgroups who cannot write or converse in proper English and that failure is due to their ignorance of the language. Twist it as you wish, there are standards in our language and they should be defended. But apparently, you don’t think so. So be it. We just don’t agree.


132 posted on 06/20/2012 8:37:30 AM PDT by OldPossum ( "it's" is the contraction of either "it is" or "it has"; "its" is the possessive pronoun)
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To: OldPossum

They aren’t subgroups they are the majority, and they’re communicating just fine. Just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean anything. There are standards in all languages that have been largely ignored by the masses for as long as there have been standards. It’s how things work. You aren’t defending anything, you’re just being snooty. No amount of anything from you is going to change the fact that the majority don’t give a crap about the grammar rules, they didn’t care about the rules before they were written down, they don’t care about them now, they’re not going to care about them any time soon. Most folks live with only 1 grammar rule “be understood”, which in the end is the point of all language.


154 posted on 06/20/2012 11:34:04 AM PDT by discostu (Listen, do you smell something?)
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