I live in a country (Germany) where the grammar is 10x as complex and the language police 2x more obnoxious. The Germans have no idea how stupid their 10,000 rules are, in that most of them cause stress and work without contributing to clarity. "Gendering" is the latest rave: nouns referring to persons have masculine and feminine forms, and both must be present if the gender of a referenced person can be either - e.g. Ingenieur, Ingenieurin (engineer, female engineer). If you use only the generic form (which used to be OK), you are being sexist. English was originally a German dialect and as grammatically messy as German. English benefited from "foreigner invasions" over the last 1200 years or so, bringing in new words and throwing out unnecessary rules. The result has been wonderful. Language is how people speak, and people are always finding new ways to speak. One sometimes hears today "I be, you be, he be", and that is fine with me. Simplify!
Gramma’s a bumma, eh?
We slur Aussie lingo - thank the Echidna it's not English! Yeh, nah, gramma’s gotta go.
We spel reel gud, but, dont cha reckon?
I live in a country (Germany) where the grammar is 10x as complex and the language police 2x more obnoxious. The Germans have no idea how stupid their 10,000 rules are, in that most of them cause stress and work without contributing to clarity. "Gendering" is the latest rave: nouns referring to persons have masculine and feminine forms, and both must be present if the gender of a referenced person can be either - e.g. Ingenieur, Ingenieurin (engineer, female engineer). If you use only the generic form (which used to be OK), you are being sexist. English was originally a German dialect and as grammatically messy as German. English benefited from "foreigner invasions" over the last 1200 years or so, bringing in new words and throwing out unnecessary rules. The result has been wonderful. Language is how people speak, and people are always finding new ways to speak. One sometimes hears today "I be, you be, he be", and that is fine with me. Simplify!
So hard to give up grammar policing! Thanks for letting me know recovery is possible. LOL