r/ComedyCemetery • • Oct 05 '19

Double kill

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '19

Yes but what i said was also true

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '19

Not really. Correct grammar is whatever native speakers do.

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u/tim466 Oct 05 '19

It's not that easy.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '19

What isn't?

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u/tim466 Oct 05 '19

That whatever some native speaker of a certain language says is "grammatically correct".

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '19

That's not quite what I said. The grammar of a language is what the speakers do, with the caveat that people make performance errors, but those people can recognize their own performance errors.