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Re:Ask HN: Is it immoral not to correct someone else's gramm... by firefax on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @03:59PM (#45280676)
>There is no authority over the english language.

Thanks for this. I often see folks like OP very condescendingly tell people they're not writing "correctly", while forgetting that English is a constantly evolving language -- at a certain point if a "mistake" becomes mainstream, it becomes an acceptable one.

(I'm struggling for more complex examples, but think of how people will say, declare "that's not a word"... well, usage of "not a word"s is how they end up going into the dictionary...)

Re:Ask HN: Is it immoral not to correct someone else's gramm... by amichail on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @04:29PM (#45281000)
Actually, we do now have a few tech authorities of the English language.