<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
 
Or, as the linguists would say, "Don't sweat the little shit".  Inaccuracies, like bad grammar, enliven prose and make it seem as if real people wrote it.
 
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Craig,
 
In case you missed it, the above is sarcasm. "Don't sweat the little shit" is a totally indefensible position, e.g., "two plus two equals four", unless it suits the student to think of it as "five".
 
What do you think teachers should do with their days? Just sit there and let the little dears do what they want? Might as well. They learn all they'll ever know about their language by the time they're six years old. Unless ignoramus erratus is spoken at the dinner table. And unless the family doesn't have dinner together, as most now don't.
 
Letting errors go is an indefensible position.


      

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