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Their we go, it’s not that hard.
Actually it is, that is why it is a common mistake.
I find for me it has more to do with context changes / hyper caetextia issues, what some might say “muscle memory”, although it’s not really like that to me. It always seems like manual transmission, not automatic. I KNOW the proper use of of the word choice, but I have 500 threads of ideas in my mind going and composing the English output is a constant suffering.
The “Tower of Babel” metaphor of how much people hate and dehumanize each other over language, writing, speaking - I always find these postings revealing of the kind of hate people have. And why so many adore Donald Trump’s communications and elevate his communications at every opportunity to media system top topics. People ADORE playing “I am smarter than Donald Trump” mockery media games that Kremlin created in 2013.
When has mixing up which “there” to use actually mattered to comprehension in the real world? Grammar is not a neutral, it is often employed as a weapon to enforce class divisions along perceived differences in education for one thing and so I think it is valid question.
Grammar is a construct and concept applied to language in retrospect because it makes some people anxious that language could have arisen organically without needing a rigid system of rules with names.
It is a pathetic and hateful choice to not bother to see value in your words just because you mixed up a word in a trivial way.
It is a pathetic and hateful choice to not bother to see value in your words just because you mixed up a word in a trivial way.
In USA, I witness people use this as a way to punch down on immigrants and on people they don’t like. Same as insulting their eye color, skin color, hair color, fashion choices, etc. Egoism. Education is highly competitive to get into big name brand universities like Harvard and Stanford, so they really like to flaunt their intelligence by punching down on people who struggle with communications.
it makes some people anxious that language could have arisen organically without needing a rigid system of rules with names.
Yha, I’ve made that a topic over on a Lemmy community where I’m compiling references on the topic: !BabelTower@lemm.ee
Have a good weekend.
