• Dran@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Spelling and grammar are important. Language is only as useful as it is commonly and uniformly understood.

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        That’s kind an argument for not caring about spelling and grammar. We can all tell what Xepp meant. The principle at hand is why linguists say that insisting on rigid grammar and spelling is pointless. Also, language evolves… otherwise we’d be saying thy and thou. Dialects other than the ‘prestige dialect’ spoken and written by people with the highest access to education are considered perfectly legitimate because all that matters is whether the listener can understand…

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          2 years ago

          Bill helped his brother, jack, off a horse.

          Bill helped his brother jack off a horse

          It doesn’t take much sometimes for a sentence to completely change meaning,l; at best we knew what he meant but struggled through it slightly.