• 7upCoconut@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    When someone says “I seen”.

    No, you saw. Or you have seen.

    It’s like nails on a chalkboard to me.

    • MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Ya that’s not a sign uneducated imo. Infact, formal education has very little to do with how “educated” one is.

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      1 year ago

      what gets me is when people interpret the use of different english dialects as a negative reflection on their character. demanding strict adherance to prescriptivist standards of grammar seem to me to be a sign of poor education.

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      That’s not poorly educated, it’s just a part of different dialects and is attested as early as 1620.