Because language evolves and isn’t prescriptivist. Especially in the US where a Founding Father wrote a dictionary to explicitly reject strict prescriptivism(it was still prescriptivist in ways but better than contemporaries).
Webster was my nickname in university because of being a stickler for proper grammar and vocabulary. Of course I went to university in USA with american roommates
Actually I’m now replying to this from my inbox and I don’t remember even why we were talking about it lol…hahahaha I now see it was a total divergence from the actual original post lol. At this point I couldn’t care less 😂 Enjoy bro… 👋
Why do they say it like that? 😂. Don’t they listen to what they are saying?
Because language evolves and isn’t prescriptivist. Especially in the US where a Founding Father wrote a dictionary to explicitly reject strict prescriptivism(it was still prescriptivist in ways but better than contemporaries).
This is not an example of evolution, this is just a widespread error.
The target understands it, therefore it is correct language
Using America in your argument has nullified it in my mind🤣
the argument is about america??
You mentioned the founding fathers I assumed that was the american ones
Yeah. It is about why Americans say it- so it is relevant to American history?
And the founding fathers would have said it was wrong too lol
Webster wouldn’t have cared
Webster was my nickname in university because of being a stickler for proper grammar and vocabulary. Of course I went to university in USA with american roommates
Actually I’m now replying to this from my inbox and I don’t remember even why we were talking about it lol…hahahaha I now see it was a total divergence from the actual original post lol. At this point I couldn’t care less 😂 Enjoy bro… 👋
OK so I still think it’s wrong
Why does it matter if the target audience understands it?
That’s the same argument rappers could make when they totally butcher the language
But at this point I couldn’t care less 😂