• Sagifurius@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    You ain’t never learned to just keep that there mouth shut bout how some people make themselves easily understood?

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      8 months ago

      If that kind of twisted and illogical grammar is what you call “easily understood,” then I’m beginning to see why we have such a literacy problem. My whole point is that it is NOT easily understood, and in fact I’ve rarely encountered a more difficultly worded sentence when all the person was trying to say was simply “you didn’t see anything.” See how easily it can be said AND understood?

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        8 months ago

        Consider that English grammar in general feels like that for everybody whose first language has synthetic grammar (like Slavic languages).

        A-and for me it seemed funny and it’s amazing how there are so many dialects of English. It’s really boring to speak a language which is more or less the same everywhere it’s present.