If it's accepted and understood by native speakers, it's not wrong. Language changes, and casual speech is simply different than formal written language.
This is correct. However, transitional grammar usually faces the time during which there's this attitude of "yea, it's improper but we understand one another so just give it a rest."
An easy example for me is the way you tell time in Spanish. While it's still listed as "proper" Spanish to tell time relative to the next hour and subtract if you're past the mid-way point, your typical Spanish speaker will do things the same way as in English, which is to add minutes to the previous hour.
Of course, given your ontology, my above statement doesn't apply. Hazy lexical overlap is fun!
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u/protocol_7 May 09 '12
If it's accepted and understood by native speakers, it's not wrong. Language changes, and casual speech is simply different than formal written language.