05/14 - Smashing Sunday!

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She's right. IT'S BASED ON WHERE YOU LIVE. It's like saying the Queen speaks incorrectly because she speaks elevated RP British English. That's a minority dialect.

P.S. Standard grammar is based on the speech of the wealthy and powerful.

That's all for now.
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She's right. IT'S BASED ON WHERE YOU LIVE. It's like saying the Queen speaks incorrectly because she speaks elevated RP British English. That's a minority dialect.

P.S. Standard grammar is based on the speech of the wealthy and powerful.

That's all for now.
I trust you you're a cunning linguist
 

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I love pogs and I still have all of my old ones. That doesn't answer your question. But I love them and that's what matters.
I left my giant container at an ex's and forgot to ever get them back after we broke up. Sometimes life is so unfair.
 
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She's right. IT'S BASED ON WHERE YOU LIVE. It's like saying the Queen speaks incorrectly because she speaks elevated RP British English. That's a minority dialect.

P.S. Standard grammar is based on the speech of the wealthy and powerful.

That's all for now.
Can we please sticky this and refer all further posts on the subject?
 

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She's right. IT'S BASED ON WHERE YOU LIVE. It's like saying the Queen speaks incorrectly because she speaks elevated RP British English. That's a minority dialect.

P.S. Standard grammar is based on the speech of the wealthy and powerful.

That's all for now.
Homegirl just schooled you heathens on prescriptive vs. descriptive grammar.
 

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She's right. IT'S BASED ON WHERE YOU LIVE. It's like saying the Queen speaks incorrectly because she speaks elevated RP British English. That's a minority dialect.

P.S. Standard grammar is based on the speech of the wealthy and powerful.

That's all for now.
But. So... because I live in the only place that matters... you're saying I'm right?

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...are you a linguist?
No, I'm just a grammar and vocab nerd. I majored in Anthropology and had to take a few linguistics courses - I really enjoyed them! I think I told your sister, but one of my best friends got his MA in Linguistics at Ohio State! One time I won a giant hershey kiss in middle school for diagramming sentences.
 
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