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There's also a well-known thing about English in that it's culturally much less prescriptive about grammar than other languages. The American-English philosophy around grammar doesn't necessarily transpose to other grammars around the world.


American English is trying to do away with adverbs entirely! Sometimes I find myself shouting '-ly!' at the screen. (I just wanted to leave that comment here real quick.)


... They said, spending too much effort to try to insult me by going through my comment history and still missing the point of the original comment.


I didn't even look at your profile, if you've said 'real quick' or something similar before (or whatever it is you think I gleaned from there) it's a coincidence.

And in fact why would I have? I was replying to something someone else said in reply to you, not even related really except via parent to your GP comment.




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