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submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (12 children)

So why teach English at all? People could just make it all up theirself.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Because you have to know the rules and conventions to be able to break them effectively - if you don't know that "theirself" is not grammatically correct, then your sentence reads as sincere rather than sarcastic

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