In this context, couldn't we just take this to mean `native speakers'? Depends what we mean by ``grammar'' I guess ... Anyway I don't know that, at least on this reading, we should understand the rules as `something to police,' but more like `something we intuitively already know.' Surely we wouldn't try to quote/paraphrase someone's speech by saying `He there is a problem that said,' for instance. Old news to everyone here?
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In this context, couldn't we just take this to mean `native speakers'? Depends what we mean by ``grammar'' I guess ... Anyway I don't know that, at least on this reading, we should understand the rules as `something to police,' but more like `something we intuitively already know.' Surely we wouldn't try to quote/paraphrase someone's speech by saying `He there is a problem that said,' for instance. Old news to everyone here?
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Yeah, I think it's not the case that you have to be part of some kind of social elite to know how to talk properly - it's just a sign of making a little effort to use the language correctly when speaking or writing. When I see people write things like Banana's 50p/lb or I would of said that, but..., I dislike it just because it looks 'wrong'. It's just sloppy and careless, and it's not even like those are examples of really advanced grammar; I could have spotted what was wrong with them when I was about 8.