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[–] 29 points 7 months ago (17 children)
  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago (12 children)

    Don't be a grammar cop.

    You can do better, so can Seattle.

    Less needless "corrections" that add nothing to conversations. More engaging in conversation

    Less being a stickler for no good reason. More being chill for once

    Less grammar cops Better communities

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (10 children)

    Fewer people who care how language works.
    More people who can't speak their own language.

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  • [–] -3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    If you're speaking it natively and correctly to your own understanding, you're not speaking it wrong, or unable to speak it. That assertion is asinine on its face. Languages change.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    Not all change of language is good.

    Read 1984 again if forgot why.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    Ah, you mean the book about a prescriptivist policy of grammar coming top-down from government, that one?

    And how the way that people rebelled was intentionally misuse of the rules in a "you didn't say I couldn't use it this way!", a form of descriptivism

    Read 1984, if forget why

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  • [–] -4 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Less people enforce arbitrary outdated "rules"

    More people let language evolve like the living thing it is

    Less people care about prescriptivism outside of formal contexts

    More the language reflects reality rather than being left to stagnate and die

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (3 children)

    I actually agree with what you've written here, but not in this context. This IS a formal context where the recruitment poster in the image isn't trying to be clever or interesting or funny, which are all valid contexts for different uses of established language rules, they're just wrong. Additionally the OP comment here wasn't being rude by offering the correct word for the context, I saw it as offering assistance to someone forming their sentence incorrectly.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

    It's not a formal context, it's very obviously written in a breezy and casual style, where attention-grabbing is more important than formalities

    The call-response format is short-long in stressing, which gives it a PUNCH that "fewer" would lose as well

    1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6

    Feels more punchy than

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

    Also, it's not a recruitment poster, it's a political advocacy poster.

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