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Cake day: October 22nd, 2023

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  • You’re suggesting Reddit as a better place to promote grammatical correctness? Why? Is basic correct grammar too high a standard for an idealistic, tech-savvy collaborative forum platform such as Lemmy, especially given all the bright minds whom have deviated from the corruption of Reddit’s sold-out mismanagement to instead contribute to the ideals offered by Lemmy?

    I really think this platform deserves more mindfulness than the mindlessness we all saw pollute and corrupt Reddit. Don’t ya think?



  • an language learning model …

    Oops, you did it again — and immediately after provision of a thorough and simplified clarification. Where’s the mindful retention, especially in someone imaginably mindful enough to divert — through extensive reading — from mainstream social media into a deeply niche, text- and reading-based Lemmy alternative to Reddit? Furthermore, what in the world is England teaching in their English classes if not the correct uses of ‘a’ and ‘an’? This is concerning.
    I hope this is an age issue. Please tell me you’re a pot-smoking tween and not any level of graduate.

    … tips and tricks …

    Hmm, a YouTube addict, I suspect; maybe not so much of a reader.




  • . . . I did get an private message . . .

    Correction: . . . I did get a private message . . .

    I see this grammatical error frequently enough to realize this is likely being wrongfully taught as proper English on a large scale.

    Here’s the grammar rule with an:
    Use an to introduce words that identify a single thing that is pronounced to sound like it begins with a vowel. Otherwise, use a to introduce a single thing that is pronounced to sound like it begins with a consonant.

    Reference:
    https://www.grammar.com/a-vs-an-when-to-use/

    My guess is the incorrect grammar is probably being taught in the same ESL models teaching people to inject questions into noninquisitive statements (ie. “They don’t know what is proper English grammar” — which can be better phrased as “They don’t know what proper English grammar is” but more correctly as “They don’t know proper English grammar.”)

    Anyone who is educated in English enough to be able to standardize an ESL model is aware that those uses I exampled are grammatically incorrect, so it’s my guess there’s some deliberate oppression designed into those language learning models to distinguish foreign English learners as linguistically inferior instead of as potentially native.