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[irun_mon]

Me: "I'm so sorry if my English isn't perfect, English isn't my first language and I'm still learning to improve it"
English native speakers: "it okey lel"

[folchandre]

English Professor: "It is impossible for adverbs to be plural!"
My local friends: "Anyways, .."

[AK-dipc]

Native English speaker here, reacting as I watch:
1) I do use “whom”, though mostly for sarcasm or emphasis
2) Yeah, “there’s” is very common to overtake “there are”
3) The use of past tense tends to imply the change in native English, especially if its combined with “before”, definitely
4) 👍
5) Singular they has existed and been used for hundreds of years?

Remember, language is most correct when it communicates thoughts properly! All of these don’t follow grammar rules but they’re as “proper” English as any other, so long as the listener knows what it meant!

[mikebuongiorno]

One needn’t worry. We shan’t be repeating these mistakes.

[DistrarSubvoyikar]

Actually, "Who is" should never be "Whom is", because we only say "He is", not "Him is".

Also, as a linguist, I believe that the way native speakers normally speak is the truly correct way. The "textbook-correct" way, as I always call it, often doesn't properly keep up with evolution of language, and doesn't normally account for the various dialects of a language.

[alex]

Me, an intellectual: whomst'd've

[johng]

It’s important to remember that languages evolve over time and that the purpose of language is communication. Getting the message across is more important.

[pullt]

Common error:

Using "never" in clickbait title, when you mean "seldom"

[all_watched_over]

'going to' is pronounced almost 100% of the time as 'gunna' - she even pronounced it that way in the intro.

[Nukepositive]

TL;DW

#1. Nobody uses "whom."
#2. When we start with "There is" or "There are, " sometimes we use the wrong one.
#3. We sometimes use simple past instead of past perfect. (imo, not really an error.)
#4. "If I was you" is wrong.
#5. Singular they. I have to put my foot down on this one that singular they is the classically correct form when the gender is indeterminate. It was the norm in the 18th century; Charles Dickens and other great English writers used it as the standard.

Edit: about ending sentences with prepositions. This comes from the old prescriptivist view that if something was bad grammar in Latin, it must be bad grammar in English. Split infinitives? Literally impossible in Latin; ergo should not be done in English. The preposition one is also a carryover from Latin lovers. The key difference is that English is a Germanic language, and in our language family, prepositions can be attached to verbs. So "look out, " "look out for, " "look up to, " and "look down on" are all different verbs with different meanings. Those words are not prepositions here, in the same way that other words can be multiple parts of speech. And it's perfectly fine in Germanic languages to end a sentence with a verb.

[PoshJosey]

The first rule of English: Their our know rules.

[kittywithagun]

Yeah I've never used "textbook English" while talking to my American friends, not even a single time, told me I'm giving them native speaker vibes. Best compliment I've gotten so far lmao

[MartinAhlman]

Singular "they" has been part of the English language for a loooong time.

[epsilon-]

Learn the rules as a master so yo can break them as an artist.

[maroonedmind]

Although I sometimes teach my students 'common' English as opposed to 'correct' English, I'm always careful to stress to them that there's a difference between me - as a native speaker - using common English and them as non-native speakers using it. For me, speaking 'common' English to fellow native speakers sounds normal, but when non-native speakers use 'common' English, it can make them sound as if their level of English is quite low. This is why, when they learn English, they are taught 'correct' English and not 'common' English. They should only use 'common' English when their level of English is proficient enough that it's obvious to native speakers that they are doing so because their level of English is actually so high, they are speaking like a native, and not because their level is English is so low that they don't understand the grammar rules.

[froedlmetallmann]

Using “of” instead of “have” makes me rage inside.

[spacecowboy]

Are we making mistakes, or is it just the language evolving.

[nippitaboy]

Some of those "error" with time they become the rule.

[CloudyDays]

Ehhhh, people have been using "they" for a singular pronoun for a loooonnnggg time. It's pretty much acceptable as correct now

[KokoMcMonkey]

The "rule" that ending a sentence in a preposition is an artificial construct that was forced on English by some of the early grammarians who thought that since this rule applies in Latin, then it should be in English as well.