08-30-2020, 10:01 PMTheHockeyist Wrote:

08-30-2020, 09:58 PMgrok Wrote: it certainly is not incorrect. and you can try to "game" me all you like but i have a degree in english composition/literature with a capstone in modernist freeform poetry. this is my professional opinion, and it is that your frustration is petulant and not helpful.

Very well. I am aware of the limitations of descriptivist grammar and how some Latin-based rules are no longer considered objectively correct. But still, at least the basic rules like punctuation usage and capitalization and word order are more consistent, barring some edge cases. This is what I'm complaining about.

the assumptions you're making that i have a problem with are

1. internet english is the same dialect as spoken or even written english. the high speed communications needs have transformed how internet users use english to communicate so much that there's almost no value in direct comparisons to "school english" and this is very well studied in the linguistic space

2. fitted is a native english speaker. this subcommunity in specific has a very wide reach to folks in non-english speaking countries, and even if fitted does speak english as a first language it's shitty to see that attitude as someone with limited english speaking skills

3. english writing has to have predictable grammar to be valuable. i'm not about to claim fitted's media is fine art, but i think it's dishonest to say his writing is incomprehensible. i am certainly able to read it and derive value from it, even if it's challenging for different reasons than i'm used to.

i'm not trying to fight and i've said my piece. i just hope you think about why you're making those assumptions, and how you could change the way you engage with both people and writing by challenging those assumptions.