• MamboGator@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Dunno why anyone would downvote you for this.

    “Hey, this guy is trying to learn something that he wasn’t taught before! What an asshole!”

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      10 months ago

      I can only imagine they’re downvoting because they’ve had a better education than me, or paid more attention in class, or read the Wikipedia entry ten minutes before me.

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        10 months ago

        I majored in English at university and still had to double check Wikipedia to make sure I wasn’t talking out of my ass. There are so many grammatical rules that I only have a tiny understanding of.

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          10 months ago

          Exactly! I mean, some people (looking at you downvoters) learnt that during their education. But I (we?) didn’t, and this has been a really interesting find for me.

          I genuinely love learning about linguistic weirdness, I just don’t know a lot about it. Or have many occasions to learn.