i mean really all of these “rules” are guidelines for formal writing at best, in daily speech it doesn’t matter one iota how you type as long as people understand you.
I absolutely agree! I’m a descriptivist and not a prescriptivist when it comes to linguistics and I’m much more interested in semantics and semiotics than syntax.
I just love pointing out when even the nominally prescriptivists get it wrong. I treat it like a Los Angeles smug alert.
It is perfectly fine to end a sentence with a preposition in English.
https://www.scribbr.com/parts-of-speech/ending-a-sentence-with-a-preposition/#:~:text=Yes%2C it’s fine to end,results in very unnatural phrasings.
I think of this every time.
i mean really all of these “rules” are guidelines for formal writing at best, in daily speech it doesn’t matter one iota how you type as long as people understand you.
language prescriptivism is wack
I absolutely agree! I’m a descriptivist and not a prescriptivist when it comes to linguistics and I’m much more interested in semantics and semiotics than syntax.
I just love pointing out when even the nominally prescriptivists get it wrong. I treat it like a Los Angeles smug alert.