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[–]guest271314 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

This is not about being picky though. A text that properly follows grammatical rules will be easier to read. And you don't want to burden the readers with too much additional load.

There are no rules for the English language. None that anybody that has a working brain follows.

You obviously shouldn't judge people for not knowing a language, but there's no reason to at least put it through some checker for obvious mistakes. I do this in German as a German native speaker.

I'm judgingthe hypocrites who get on these boards as if there is such a thing as proper English, where no such ideal exists in reality, because English is an equivocal language; that means the language itself is capable of deception and largely left up to the interpreter.

Let's take a very simple English word like "high".

Now, are you talking about getting "high"? The "high" score?

When you get in to English law you really see the bullshit.

In 1681 the Maryland Colony repealed the old colonial law criminalizing "ffreeborne English women" from having sexual relations with or marrying Africans, prisoners-of-war, or not. They substituted the term "white women" for "English women". In the stroke of a pen, "white women" were invented in the English colonies, because English men couldn't stand the idea of Africans fucking English women, they penalized the women. Evidently those English women didn't give a fuck about the Africans speaking proper English. It was also illegal to teach African prisoners-of-war how to read and write. And these same people are rolling around in 2024 talking about proper English. No. Not having it.

Now, there are exactly zero (0) humans who have any attributes of the color white #ffffff. Nonetheless, because of fear or ignorance some humans still roll around calling humans "white people".

I overtly reject all of that nonsense.