Comment on Why do people say things like "I didn't do nothing"?

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intelisense@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I think you have this back to front. The grammar rules were written long after the language was spoken. Their purpose is to describe how language is actually used. Language evolves, though, so grammar must evolve too.

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