Emails from the Jeffrey Epstein files show the late pedophile trying to connect far-right tech mogul Peter Thiel and former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak on at least six separate occasions.
Language is a wave, not a set of laws. There is no static thing you can identify as a law within a language, only a summary of how a language tends to be expressed by its speakers at any given moment.
I was talking about form, not laws. I was talking about the past, when you were expected to pronounce and spell words “correctly” and their usage mattered. It was a long time ago. If you don’t think that’s true, well I can’t help you. This is “expected” vs. reality. People raised in “proper” environments can attest to that, and there was punishment for dissention, so call it what you will. Used to be a time the president of the USA had to be literate and not a buffoon, but here we are.
That a big slong.
I wish journalists remembered the 4th-grade and hyphenation. Then again, the nitwit pluralizes mass nouns like “e-mail” with an S, so…
The are no laws to language, this isn’t physics, you understood what was being communicated and yet you chose to make an issue out of it.
There was a time when things like that mattered. It is long gone, but there was a time…
Language is a wave, not a set of laws. There is no static thing you can identify as a law within a language, only a summary of how a language tends to be expressed by its speakers at any given moment.
I was talking about form, not laws. I was talking about the past, when you were expected to pronounce and spell words “correctly” and their usage mattered. It was a long time ago. If you don’t think that’s true, well I can’t help you. This is “expected” vs. reality. People raised in “proper” environments can attest to that, and there was punishment for dissention, so call it what you will. Used to be a time the president of the USA had to be literate and not a buffoon, but here we are.
Won’t anybody think of the rules?!?!
What a stupid fucking hill to choose to die on.