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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Painting an orange car blue or a blue car orange. Unmitigated pants-on-head savagery.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Using less instead of fewer. Fewer is quantitative, Less is qualitative. Fewer rain drops, less rain.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

In my country, educated just means you came from money, and did some busy work. Largely idiots tbh.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I would say "not the grammar" since many users are not native English speakers and have learned it as a second (or third, fourth...) language. ๐Ÿ’โ€โ™‚๏ธ๐ŸŒ

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[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

Coming to absolutes and never admitting your faults

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

Thinking about different languages in the terms of "useful" or "useless" according to the number of speakers they have.

Edit: What I mean specifically is not for someone to want or not to personally learn a language, but if the existance in itself of a language is more or less valuable according to how many people speak it (per example and as I explained below, believing that Occitan's existance is useless because there's already French to talk to Occitan people with, who already understand it). Yes, this happens.

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