There is no such thing as basic grammar, FFS. If you knew what they meant then they conveyed their meaning perfectly and you are being needlessly rude. Unless you are grading a paper that has specific requirements for Standard American English™ there is absolutely no reason to be a cock about someone else’s perfectly expressive language.
“we regularly demand of people that they suppress or deny the most effective way they have of situating themselves socially in the world”—their language (Lippi-Green 2011, p. 63). Institutional function often depends on a particular set of beliefs about how language, especially the standard language, works. Lippi-Green and others refer to this set of beliefs as the standard language ideology, defined as “a bias toward an abstracted, idealized, homogeneous spoken language which is imposed and maintained by dominant bloc institutions and which names as its model the written language, but which is drawn primarily from the spoken language of the upper middle class” (Lippi-Green 2011, p. 64; see also Agha 2007).
See also: Prescriptive vs descriptive grammar and the uselessness of the former.
Yeah those are not citations to the point, they are anecdotal at best.
I’m not a native speaker, my first language is french, and I used to make that mistake, which is why I brought it up. Get over yourself, there’s no way to say “that’s not a mistake they would make”.
“This error is more disruptive for natives than non natives” doesn’t mean what you think it means. Sure maybe it’s not as frequent, it’s not a basis to assume anything, or to say “I’m a native speaker”.
Could have*
Learn basic grammar, FFS.
No need to be rude about it, though.
Ikr like evr even rmr witch wrds 2 use?
Edit: sadly it wouldn’t let me put the witch emoji for which
🪄 this one ?
Oups my bad eyes didn’t see it’s a magic wand. I get the broom 🧹 and magic wand 🪄 but the witch doesn’t come up.
🧙♀️
Plagiarism is a bad thing
Including plagiarising the dictionary
There is no such thing as basic grammar, FFS. If you knew what they meant then they conveyed their meaning perfectly and you are being needlessly rude. Unless you are grading a paper that has specific requirements for Standard American English™ there is absolutely no reason to be a cock about someone else’s perfectly expressive language.
Yale Grammatical Diversity Project: https://ygdp.yale.edu/project-description
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210528-the-pervasive-problem-of-linguistic-racism
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/01/07/the-limits-of-standard-english/
https://web.stanford.edu/~zwicky/aave-is-not-se-with-mistakes.pdf
Language and Discrimination: Generating Meaning, Perceiving Identities, and Discriminating Outcomes: https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011718-011659
See also: Prescriptive vs descriptive grammar and the uselessness of the former.
Or maybe its because they’re english is there second language and they could care less on lemmy, at least less then commenting.
Edit: bring the downvotes! I win, you loose.
“Could of” instead of “Could’ve”“Could have” is not a typical mistake people make that have English as their second language.
Citation needed*
The fact that you think this needs a citation shows that you are a native speaker.
These might be no high quality sources, but it shows that it is something that non native speakers find weird:
Quora1
Quora2
Reddit
Blog entry about mistakes that native speakers make
Another similar blog
Oh, and here is a PhD thesis where you can see in chapter 5.2 “Error processing cost” that this type of error is more disrupting for non native than for native speakers.
Yeah those are not citations to the point, they are anecdotal at best.
I’m not a native speaker, my first language is french, and I used to make that mistake, which is why I brought it up. Get over yourself, there’s no way to say “that’s not a mistake they would make”.
“This error is more disruptive for natives than non natives” doesn’t mean what you think it means. Sure maybe it’s not as frequent, it’s not a basis to assume anything, or to say “I’m a native speaker”.