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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Regional, but also English grammar is weird. [/quote]

How is it weird? You were either taught proper English, or not.  This should have been taught starting in the 1st grade. Even if you hear it at home or "in the streets" what you're learning in school trumps all of that.  [/quote]

Hahahaha no. "proper English," ha. Just because some dudes started taking advantage of the social-climbing new middle class after the industrial revolution doesn't mean there is a proper or improper English. Yes, the gatekeeping academia of times past has essentially controlled the rules for writing and we basically have to follow them if we want to get respect (this is called respectability politics, by the way), but that is an inherently subjective standard.

Also, yes English is absolutely weird. English is a bizarre amalgamation of various languages and doesn't have the much simpler origins of languages like Spanish. [/quote]

Do you feel that spelling should also be a creative enterprise with no fixed rules? What about math? [/quote]

It depends on what you mean by math. Math has a formal set of symbols/shorthand to express things like for every, there exists, etc. You aren't required to use them.[/quote]

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