• peopleproblems@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Ok so, as a native English speaker, let me inform you, that whatever you think is a rule in English, isn’t. It’s a guideline. It’s a hard language because we lack structure. The native teachers are teaching you the basic guidelines, not actual conversational English, which varies heavily on location, and social group.

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        9 months ago

        Ok[] so, as a native english speaker, let me inform you[,] that whatever you think is a rule in english[,] isn’t.

        i count 3.

        out of 4 commas placed, it’s not great, but i was expecting closer to a dozen from your comment.

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      9 months ago

      English definitely has rules.

      It’s why you can’t say something like “girl the will boy the paid” to mean “the boy is paying the girl” and have people understand you.

      Less vs fewer, though, isn’t really a rule. It’s more an 18th century style guideline some people took too seriously.