• letsgo@lemm.ee
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    18 days ago

    Also misspelt “even”, and ended a sentence with a preposition.

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      18 days ago

      That’s a fake rule tacked onto English in imitation of Latin from Romeaboos in the Enlightenment, and it’s only a rule in Latin because it doesn’t make grammatical sense, unlike in English. It hasn’t been taken seriously since the 20th century, except by half-educated pedants.

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          18 days ago

          Many grammatical rules exist to clarify meaning and changing them loses precision of language, but regardless, no one ever actually accepted that rule but stuffy wannabes who weren’t even good at the thing they were being stuffy about.