Comment on Anon is a linguist
m0darn@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
I feel like I’m walking into a trap here but:
This pedant is using an adjective as an adverb.
(…)you don’t conjugate your verbs right.
Comment on Anon is a linguist
m0darn@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
I feel like I’m walking into a trap here but:
This pedant is using an adjective as an adverb.
(…)you don’t conjugate your verbs right.
alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 2 days ago
right is informal american english for “correctly”. i don’t give a shit about prescriptive rules of grammar, they’re all bullshit. every last rule was created by some holier-than-thou pedant. i’m only interested in descriptive rules, i.e. grice’s maxims (the thing that finally made me understand how to get over my autism)
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 2 days ago
usingenglish.com/…/grices-conversational-maxims.h… for those, like me, who did not know what Grice’s Maxims are. It’s a short read.
alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 2 days ago
believe it or not i can’t remember how it all works even though i was completely obsessed with it in college. i knew how much it could benefit me if i started applying the maxims to every single thing i heard and said, which i did.
Camille_Jamal@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
What do you mean get over your autism? You’re still autistic, you may have gained social skills or something similar, but you’re still autistic.
<gen> also idgaf how incorrect my grammar and spellings are as long as it’s readable </gen>
also I use tone indicators kinda like HTML tags because I find they help me more that way, so they might help someone else more that way.
I do not care if you use formal, informal, american, canadian, australian, british, or a different english than any of those, as long as what you’re saying is comprehensible
m0darn@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Honestly I agree, I only pointed it out because of the irony of a pedant insisting others ought to use words according to their formal definitions while misusing formal English.
“Right” is a bad word to end a sentence with“Right” is a bad word with which to end a sentence because it can be mis-parsed as as an invitation to agreement.