• m0darn@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    I feel like I’m walking into a trap here but:

    This pedant is using an adjective as an adverb.

    (…)you don’t conjugate your verbs right.

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      3 days ago

      right is informal american english for “correctly”. i don’t give a shit about prescriptive rules of grammar, they’re all bullshit. every last rule was created by some holier-than-thou pedant. i’m only interested in descriptive rules, i.e. grice’s maxims (the thing that finally made me understand how to get over my autism)

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        2 days ago

        Honestly I agree, I only pointed it out because of the irony of a pedant insisting others ought to use words according to their formal definitions while misusing formal English.

        “Right” is a bad word to end a sentence with

        “Right” is a bad word with which to end a sentence because it can be mis-parsed as as an invitation to agreement.

      • Camille_Jamal@sh.itjust.works
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        2 days ago

        (the thing that finally made me understand how to get over my autism)

        What do you mean get over your autism? You’re still autistic, you may have gained social skills or something similar, but you’re still autistic.

        <gen> also idgaf how incorrect my grammar and spellings are as long as it’s readable </gen>

        also I use tone indicators kinda like HTML tags because I find they help me more that way, so they might help someone else more that way.

        I do not care if you use formal, informal, american, canadian, australian, british, or a different english than any of those, as long as what you’re saying is comprehensible

        • alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.worldOP
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          2 days ago

          believe it or not i can’t remember how it all works even though i was completely obsessed with it in college. i knew how much it could benefit me if i started applying the maxims to every single thing i heard and said, which i did.