cicerone imposter wrote:When people keep changing the rules on grammar, how the heck are we supposed to keep up?
It's not that the rules are changing, it's that the rules are finally being written, CI. Most of those abominations that you were, almost certainly exposed to in school are nothing but old wives tales, bits of folklore, canards, nonsense.
But not to worry; your intuitive grammar knows millions upon millions of real rules. You know rules of language that haven't even been described yet.
These are the ones that allow you to deploy your language with such ease. Language is much much more complex than people think.
You (and here I mean anyone of us) can't say the simplest thing without having a connotation of the three-letter sort attached. Name any three words and we could probably make them sound unladylike.
