Posts about opinions

we've languaged successfully

I've decided I mostly disbelieve in "bad grammar," and that people who write things like this grammarian's lament are doing something different from what they claim they're doing (perhaps unknowingly).

Language is a biological phenomenon that happens in meat. It's kind of miraculous that there are rules we can articulate at all. If an idea gets from my head to yours, then you and I have languaged successfully.

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