BY accident
Accidentally.
Bi accident
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Languages evolve.
Both are fine and used/understood by English speakers.
Descriptive grammar is the language as spoken and used by its speakers.
Prescriptive grammar is a board of old men telling everyone else how they think it should be said.
Be more like descriptive grammar.
I think you have it backwards, perhaps. Prescriptive is like when a doctor tells you what drugs to take via a prescription. That’s the old man one. (Although I think it’s quite often younger people who have recently had the idea of correct and incorrect useages of languages drilled into them!)Oh, either you edited your post, or I’m crazy. :)Also, while too much prescriptivism is certainly obnoxious, not enough has its own problems. Language needs a certain amount of conformity to ensure were actually having a conversation about what we both think we’re having a conversation about.
Ah you must’ve caught the mixup before I edited it. Well spotted.
WITH accident
Even an accident
Unless I’m reading this wrong, I think you’ve got those two linguistic approaches reversed.
American English perhaps, “on accident” sounds absolutely absurd to most Brits.
Are you someone who thinks it doesn’t matter if someone mixes up they’re / their / there etc? These things do matter because if you don’t use them correctly people are more likely to misunderstand you.
All of my English teachers were “old” women by the way, nice attempt there to shoehorn in some baddies. Nothing worse than old men, am I right?
Calm down.
The whole point of language is communication and being able to understand others and make yourself understood.
Considering that, most English speaking people would have absolutely no problem understanding the meaning of this post so it’s really not that big of an issue.
However, you do have a point about encouraging the use of good English in the sense that it allows for less confusion, but maybe if you came across of less of a pedantic porcupine who cares more about making fun of others than trying to give useful information then more people would be willing to listen to you.
Just like you were trying to make that point Deceptichum was trying to point out that people use different forms of language in different settings such as being more informal and loose with grammar on the internet, for example. Using their/there/they’re is much less worse than saying on accident instead of by accident.
Yeah, nah mate.
Try again next time eh.
Stop promoting bad English. English has rules for a reason, you can’t just speak or write however you like, else we wouldn’t get graded in English class, now would we?
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it’s finny since conservatives actually got angry and thought pink floyd went woke when they did a 50th anniversary post for dark side of the moon
They can have Waters, we’ll keep the rest.
White line to all the colors of the rainbow? White Floyd was woke ahead of its time.
