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- Non-English speakers are taught crazy grammar rules you have never heard of http://qz.com/773738/how-non-english-speakers-are-taught-this-crazy-english-grammar-rule-you-know-but-youve-never-heard-of/ 2 comments
- A Quirk of English Grammar That Died Out After Only 200 Years https://twitter.com/dtmooreeditor/status/1569366666844192769 17 comments
- Old grammar forms live on in American English https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2019/10/17/how-america-saved-old-fashioned-english-grammar 18 comments
- Many English Speakers Cannot Understand Basic Grammar http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100706082156.htm?sms_ss=reddit 2 comments
- Many English speakers cannot understand basic grammar http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100706082156.htm 22 comments
- How we found a million style and grammar errors in the English Wikipedia https://fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/how_we_found_600000_grammar_errors/ 10 comments
- English grammar for hindi medium students. https://www.youtube.com/@balbirsinghsawhney/featured 4 comments india
- English to American Sign Language translator (including grammar translations) https://signingsavvy.com 4 comments linguistics
- To understand Trump, an AI bot had to be de-programmed from using English grammar. It uses 11 million words from Trump's remarks to tell when he's angry or lying https://www.businessinsider.com/an-ai-bot-unlearned-english-grammar-to-better-understand-trump-2020-5 72 comments politics
- To understand Trump, an AI bot had to be de-programmed from using English grammar. It uses 11 million words from Trump's remarks to tell when he's angry or lying https://www.businessinsider.com/an-ai-bot-unlearned-english-grammar-to-better-understand-trump-2020-5 38 comments technology
- During the May Fourth Movement, Chinese people imitated the grammar of English language when creating modern standard Chinese. How much of this is true? https://youtu.be/-rZl1LQKixQ 19 comments linguistics
- Can you guys recommend me a good online resource for properly learning/brushing up English grammar? https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/77lwdu/can_you_guys_recommend_me_a_good_online_resource/ 10 comments india
- No, Insisting on Proper English Grammar and Spelling Is Not ‘Elitist’ http://www.nationalreview.com/article/451030/proper-english-grammar-not-elitist 166 comments politics
- Any observations of traits of spoken English by millenials in the US in terms of grammar and accent that differ from previous generations? https://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/6suibk/any_observations_of_traits_of_spoken_english_by/ 49 comments linguistics
- Lots of English grammar definitions and examples from wikipedia in one big map https://www.breakdown-notes.com/makemap/load/grammar 2 comments linguistics
- Are 'grammar Nazis' ruining the English language? Split infinitives make them shudder and they’d never end a sentence with a preposition. But linguist Geoffrey Pullum has a message for all grammar pedants: you're wrong http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/10692897/are-grammar-nazis-ruining-the-english-language.html 214 comments linguistics
- Chaser the border collie has not only learnt and remembered more than 1,000 proper nouns but she has also grasped some of the finer points of English grammar, according to researchers in the United States who have studied her. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/boning-up-on-grammar-researchers-teach-border-collie-to-understand-sentences-using-more-than-1000-words-9020181.html 6 comments worldnews
- Formal Grammar of English http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~julia/jmchapters/ch10.pdf 12 comments compsci
- XPost from AskReddit: "Hey, Reddit, do you think it's fair to regard any born English speaker who types with bad grammar or spelling as intrinsically less intelligent?" http://www.reddit.com/r/askreddit/comments/ffaga/hey_reddit_do_you_think_its_fair_to_regard_any/ 9 comments linguistics
- Reince Priebus elected new RNC Chair; Millions of Republicans are forced to relearn the "i before e" rule of English grammar. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/16/ar2011011603629.html 6 comments politics
- “You control your English grammar structure.” http://dwmlc.com/index.php 3 comments reddit.com
- "English grammar shouldn’t be a matter for debate. It has a coherent and logical structure and we should stick to it. For, if we do stick to it, the result can only be clarity and, therefore, happiness." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/7956010/simon-heffer-the-corrections.html 3 comments reddit.com
- "The soldier was hit by the sailor.": Many English speakers cannot understand basic grammar. Repost from r/cogsci 'cause this blew my mind. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100706082156.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed:+sciencedaily+(sciencedaily:+latest+science+news)&sms_ss=reddit 8 comments reddit.com
- "The soldier was hit by the sailor.": Many English speakers cannot understand basic grammar. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100706082156.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28sciencedaily%3A+latest+science+news%29&sms_ss=reddit 189 comments cogsci
- Many English Speakers Cannot Understand Basic Grammar http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100706082156.htm 4 comments reddit.com
- Rules Grammar Change: English traditional replaced to be new syntax. http://www.theonion.com/content/radio_news/rules_grammar_change_0?utm_source=onion_rss_daily 4 comments linguistics
- Memo to grammar police, Back off! A new book on the history of "proper" English says you're just stuck up. http://www.salon.com/books/recommended_books/2009/10/25/lexicographers_dilemma 90 comments books
- Arrested men publicly humiliate cops by correcting their English and pointing out police grammar and spelling errors http://www.hindustantimes.com/storypage/storypage.aspx?id=425de384-eed0-4a9c-af5d-a8e31fa24792&matchid1=4665&teamid1=10&teamid2=3&matchtype1=1&seriesid1=1174&primaryid=4665&headline=mind+your+language%2C+cops 21 comments reddit.com
- Yo! Word up. English Is Changing: An Article for Redditeers Who Like Other People's Grammar to be Spot on. http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?at_code=412243 6 comments reddit.com
- English grammar rules no one teaches but everyone learns http://weblogs.csmonitor.com/verbal_energy/2007/05/index.html#entry-33940428 89 comments reddit.com
- Languages with lots of speakers, such as English and Mandarin, have large vocabularies with relatively simple grammar. Yet the opposite is also true: Languages with fewer speakers have fewer words but complex grammars. http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2018/01/simpler-grammar-larger-vocabulary-linguistic-paradox-explained 29 comments science
- Free resource for learning Gujarati grammar for my fellow English speakers. [xpost r/learngujarati] https://np.reddit.com/r/learngujarati/comments/6k3fqa/learn_gujarati_through_english_blog_by_kaushik/ 4 comments india
- Bilingual Babies Know Their Grammar By Seven Months: "Published today [14 Feb 2013] in the journal Nature Communications...the study shows that infants in bilingual environments use pitch and duration cues to discriminate between languages--such as English and Japanese--with opposite word orders." http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/2013/02/14/bilingual-babies-know-their-grammar-by-seven-months/ 14 comments science
- Done! I finally translated the Occidental Haas' grammar into English. 65 pages of international auxiliary language goodness. http://mithridates.blogspot.com/2009/01/grammar-of-occidentalinterlingue-in_3024.html 7 comments linguistics
- Estonian president corrects illiterate Trump fan's grammar who tried trolling the Estonian president for tweeting in English https://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/youre-not-your-estonian-president-corrects-illiterate-trump-fans-grammar/ 16 comments worldnews
- 'Your in America' sets grammar fascists against fascists "you can't "preserve" a language without killing it. The reason that English continues to thrive is that there is really no such thing as English at all; there are englishes. " http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/28/your-in-america-grammar-fascists 6 comments linguistics
- Top 10 English Grammar Myths and Superstitions We Should Help to Dispel - "It is dismal situation that most English users learn these English grammar myths from their teachers who do not bother to update themselves with the evolution in English." http://goodessays.blogspot.com/2007/05/top-10-english-grammar-myths-and.html 3 comments reddit.com
- Resistance to changes in grammar is futile, say researchers. Linguists say that random chance plays a bigger role than previously thought in the evolution of language, finds analysis of English texts from the 12th to 21st centuries published in Nature. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/nov/01/resistance-to-changes-in-grammar-is-futile-say-researchers 26 comments science
- Irish vet fails oral English test needed to stay in Australia. Louise Kennedy is a native English speaker, has excellent grammar and a broad vocabulary. She holds two university degrees - both obtained in English - and has been working in Australia for the past two years. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/aug/08/computer-says-no-irish-vet-fails-oral-english-test-needed-to-stay-in-australia 686 comments worldnews
- 50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice - The Elements of Style does not deserve the enormous esteem in which it is held by American college graduates. Its enormous influence has not improved American students' grasp of English grammar; it has significantly degraded it. http://www.chronicle.com/article/50-Years-of-Stupid-Grammar/25497 47 comments books