• xpinchx@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      So random, I just had a YouTube recommendation of stannis correcting Arya’s grammar.

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        9 months ago

        He corrects everyone one the less/fewer thing. It’s kind of his thing.

    • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 months ago

      language is made up and nobody is an authority

      idk how you can downvote something that is trivially true. techbros lmao, language isn’t lilke programming languages

        • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          9 months ago

          false.

          There are not rules there are conventions. And they are arbitrary in that they are determined arbitrarily through conventions. Consider heavy slang, accents, connotations and of course uertlty bzirrae siht lkie tihs rnamiineg eretliny ilbilliegtne. So mcuh for the rlues of slilenpg!

          .noitanalpxe orez etipsed ,siht daer ot elba eb neve thgim uoy