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BLUNT + LOUD & CLEAR: I am not posting these off-Reddit for mockery entertainment + insults of Reddit or myself. I am documenting a pattern of USA media influence I have seen on Reddit.
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When has mixing up which "there" to use actually mattered to comprehension in the real world? Grammar is not a neutral, it is often employed as a weapon to enforce class divisions along perceived differences in education for one thing and so I think it is valid question.
Grammar is a construct and concept applied to language in retrospect because it makes some people anxious that language could have arisen organically without needing a rigid system of rules with names.
It is a pathetic and hateful choice to not bother to see value in your words just because you mixed up a word in a trivial way.
In USA, I witness people use this as a way to punch down on immigrants and on people they don't like. Same as insulting their eye color, skin color, hair color, fashion choices, etc. Egoism. Education is highly competitive to get into big name brand universities like Harvard and Stanford, so they really like to flaunt their intelligence by punching down on people who struggle with communications.
Yha, I've made that a topic over on a Lemmy community where I'm compiling references on the topic: !BabelTower@lemm.ee
Have a good weekend.