I love English. It's a trash fire disguised as a language and I'm here for all of it. However, I really need to be better about people not speaking it "correctly." It's a goddamn trash fire. Of course people don't speak it correctly. I'm pretty sure there's no correct way to speak it. And that's leaving out all the racism and classism which goes into "grammatical perfection."

English isn't Latin. It's a glorious clusterfuck of stolen parts bolted onto a bastard chassis and powered entirely by the burning of dictionaries. There is no way that it should be the lingua franca of international affairs, and yet it is. Speak it any way you want. English doesn't give a fuck. English will take your error and turn it into a part of itself. English drinks prescriptivist tears like fine wine. Contribute to the delinquency of English any way you can.

@intransitivelie Indeed! It's an amazingly forgiving language when it comes to communicating.

Native speakers will generally understand what a non-natuve speaker is going on about, even with poor level of English.

Other languages are far less forgiving in my experience. Get one bit or tone wrong, and it's like "eh??".

The other way round can be tough though, especially with the variety of strange coloquialisms 😅

In many ways, I'm damn lucky to be a native English speaker.

@c64tone @intransitivelie
English has so many pockets to pull from! If I'm speaking to a person that isn't understanding my words i can often select words that were incorporated somewhere else or at some other time. But yeah, colloquialisms can sometimes be explained for fun but shouldn't be relied on in those situations.