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Originally Posted by mobertol
Not surprised that this argument had already been tackled in the past. 
I can't read "American" literature - I spend my time "correcting" the "mistakes". They are just the fruit of a different convention and "rules".
My loss probably.
I also think rules are there to be tested and broken - so why should certain things irk me so much? (Indoctrination?)
We all have our own predjudices and have acquired rules from various teachers and reference points...
So, Renaissance painting is art, "modern" art is not to my taste and graffiti is stuff of ignorant street "artists"...
Learn to translate and "read".
The message of the writer is the essence and that is where there is something to learn. Understanding needs breadth of mind not narrowness - I am guilty of that sometimes/often...
Jane Austen would not be in print today if her spelling mistakes and grammar were taken into account a few hundred years ago  |
"The clouds, like listless elephants,/Horizons straggled down." What a pity you don't read American literature ...
But I gots to let youse guys know that if it ain't full of "eh"s, it ain't Canajun English
