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??
But at this point I couldn’t care less 😂
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