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To: discostu
It’s not illiteracy, they can read, they can write, they just don’t put the words in the order a 100 year old book says they should. Which is your problem, not theirs.

The question you should be asking yourself is, "Who can be understood by more people? The one who speaks slang or the one who speaks correct grammar?"

An illiterate who invents speaking conventions can understand what I am saying, but the converse is not true.

91 posted on 06/20/2012 7:48:58 AM PDT by HIDEK6
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To: HIDEK6

The question you should be asking yourself is “if 99% of the people that hear it can understand it exactly as intended why is it not correct grammar?”

They aren’t inventing speaking conventions, they’re following the speaking conventions that actually get used. “Proper grammar” has always been for the upper classes, not how the masses spoke. That’s why copy editors exist, if normal people normally used “correct” grammar then they wouldn’t need editors. But “correct” grammar has always been a separate thing normal common usage.


96 posted on 06/20/2012 7:54:54 AM PDT by discostu (Listen, do you smell something?)
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