this post was submitted on 27 Nov 2023
137 points (96.6% liked)
Asklemmy
43788 readers
739 users here now
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
Search asklemmy ๐
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
- Open-ended question
- Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
- Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
- An actual topic of discussion
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
- Lemmyverse: community search
- sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
- [email protected]: a community for finding communities
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I think this is common to most languages: English speakers lecturing native speakers about how they're grammatically incorrect based on some rule printed in an entry-level language textbook.
I once saw a white dude confidently assert to a Japanese person that ๅ จ็ถ could not be used in the positive and only in the negative. Dude wouldn't even back down after the Japanese speaker got out their phone and showed him a famous 12th century (or something) poem that used ๅ จ็ถ in the affirmative. That's like trying to correct someone's grammar and then getting shut down by Shakespeare.