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The Guardian Says Correcting Grammar Is Racist; Expression Of White Privilege
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<blockquote data-quote="The Cadet" data-source="post: 69552962" data-attributes="member: 261708"><p>But despite that, you still understand me. My writings here may be different than what you might expect, and indeed they were written to prove a point, but <em>it's still clearly understood</em>. You know exactly what I'm saying. Despite the fact that almost every sentence here contained a grammar violation, there's absolutely no difficulty understanding my english. So what benefit does speaking "correctly" have, exactly?</p><p></p><p>I live in Germany, and let me tell you, these sort of arbitrary, nonsensical rules are a huge barrier. We have no less than <em>5</em> different definite articles depending on the tense and the gender of the noun (der, die, das, den, dem, and I'm not even sure that's all of them), and there's no reason for it. Get it wrong, and you're a lousy german speaker. Never mind that it's essentially completely arbitrary, and that there's no real reason to have 5 definite articles when just having one would do just fine. I nearly flunked out of school because of my grades in German Lit, <em>entirely because of my inability to wrap my head around rules whose existence provides absolutely no benefit to the language</em>!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Cadet, post: 69552962, member: 261708"] But despite that, you still understand me. My writings here may be different than what you might expect, and indeed they were written to prove a point, but [I]it's still clearly understood[/I]. You know exactly what I'm saying. Despite the fact that almost every sentence here contained a grammar violation, there's absolutely no difficulty understanding my english. So what benefit does speaking "correctly" have, exactly? I live in Germany, and let me tell you, these sort of arbitrary, nonsensical rules are a huge barrier. We have no less than [I]5[/I] different definite articles depending on the tense and the gender of the noun (der, die, das, den, dem, and I'm not even sure that's all of them), and there's no reason for it. Get it wrong, and you're a lousy german speaker. Never mind that it's essentially completely arbitrary, and that there's no real reason to have 5 definite articles when just having one would do just fine. I nearly flunked out of school because of my grades in German Lit, [I]entirely because of my inability to wrap my head around rules whose existence provides absolutely no benefit to the language[/I]! [/QUOTE]
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