• Lvxferre
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    21 month ago

    for lack of a better word

    Usages of non-standard grammar.

    This one poses me (ETL) no problem, but my brain always tilts when the natives mix subject/verb contractions (you’re, it’s, they’re) with the possessives (your, its, their).

    • OfCourseNot
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      11 month ago

      Yeah maybe not even non-standard as much as non-formal in this case.

      I wanted to mean ‘different from what you learn in English class in school as a kid’ so non-formal, non -standard, dialectal, slang, misspellings, same-sounding words…

      • Lvxferre
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        21 month ago

        That’s all covered by “non-standard” - because the standard of a language dictates what’s to be taken as informal/vulgar/archaic, dialectal, slang, different words or the same word, etc. And while there are exceptions most of the time when people learn a non-native language they learn the standard, in detriment of other varieties.

        (Sorry for nerding out about this, I just love this sort of topic.)