This specific exchange highlights exactly why grammar is stupid & why people who argue about are tiresome. Communication is the point of language & grammar is supposed to be an aid to that, not a mini-game for pedants to play when they're bored.
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Breaking News: David McCullough, the best-selling author and documentary narrator with a gift for exploring America’s past, has died at age 89. https://nyti.ms/3vQfnAR
7 August 1881 | A Czech Jew Viktor Lambert Lederer was born in Prague. A musicologist.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 12 October 1944. He did not survive.
I hate the grammar nazi's too. But I love poking fun at them for having such a boring life they wander on Twitter looking for such mistakes. Seems even picking up dog turds would be more interesting
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Tisha B'Av is over and so are the Three Weeks.
It's been trying but on the other side.
My book tour begins tomorrow and will be spread across the next weeks leading up to just before High Holidays.
Still on the mend but I'm ready.
#Koshersoul is here.
We are following with concern the violence in the Gaza Strip. We are pained by the carnage and suffering of innocents. We pray for the safety of civilians on both sides. Military power is not a solution. Only diplomacy, leading to a peace accord, could end the conflict.
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The possibility of visits by Temple Mount activists tomorrow to the Mount.
The Israeli Gov't side is likely thinking "everyone was warning us about the Flags March, and nothing happened ".
Both of these accounts are true, but partial. Each feeds a particular narrative.
Taken in absence of the other, each account is at best incomplete, at worst, willfully dishonest. Seek all the information, and consider for yourself what it means.
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