"...one's personal preference does not a grammar rule make."
I'd say it does make a grammar rule, but that acceptance of the rule by other people is by no means guaranteed.
I do suffer from an internal conflict. On the one hand, I believe everyone has his own grammar and "English Grammar" is merely a description of a consensus; "ungrammatical" is therefore only relative, and as Bunn says the "ungrammatical" could be perfectly grammatical in another context or dialect. On the other hand, I get annoyed when people get things wrong :-D
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Date: 2008-02-22 03:29 pm (UTC)I'd say it does make a grammar rule, but that acceptance of the rule by other people is by no means guaranteed.
I do suffer from an internal conflict. On the one hand, I believe everyone has his own grammar and "English Grammar" is merely a description of a consensus; "ungrammatical" is therefore only relative, and as Bunn says the "ungrammatical" could be perfectly grammatical in another context or dialect. On the other hand, I get annoyed when people get things wrong :-D