Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

Oh, that's mostly a failure to communicate in the prestige dialect of English.



You seem to have a big gripe about the English language. There is nothing prestige about it, some of the upper class may like to pretend there is but it's just a means of communication like every other language and I would make the same observations about those too.


There are different version of English. Please refer this most interesting paper "Grammatically Deviant Prestige Constructions" (http://fine.me.uk/Emonds/).




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: