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[โ€“] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is the flip side of people trying to justify all kinds of obviously incorrect language by saying it's just the language evolving.

[โ€“] averyminya@beehaw.org 3 points 2 months ago

If it's colloquially accepted then that does tend to be the case.

If they are just saying the wrong words and trying to justify it, that's a different story. But far too often it's colloquial and classicalists are just being obtuse by not growing with the language.