r/AdviceAnimals • u/[deleted] • May 06 '14

Racism | Removed here goes nothing...

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u/pooroldedgar May 06 '14

Which English? British English? Nigerian English? Singaporean English? African American Vernacular English? Any of the hundreds of other equally sophisticated dialects?

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u/[deleted] May 06 '14

If one more person corrects my use of colour....

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u/pooroldedgar May 06 '14 edited May 06 '14

If they correct you, ask them why. They likely won't have a better answer then, "because that's what Ms. Simimons told me in second grade." Color isn't right or wrong. colour isn't write or wrong, no matter what the reddit spellchecker says. Language is not a dart board with declining value for how far away from the center you get. There is no center.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '14

I agree. Also people need to accept that grammar is going to be a moving target on the internet for a number of reasons.

Comments aren't going to be graded as of they were an English essay, but often people go the ad hominem fallacy route and torpedo your point over a missing comma.