Timeline for What's it called when one is so familiar with a language that phrases just "sound" right or wrong?
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| Apr 23, 2014 at 8:45 | answer | added | Third News | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 22, 2014 at 18:54 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Educated people still argue over what the 'grammatical rules' actually are. It'll take many years before I 'accept' It's goodnight from Julie and I, which the BBC grammar police allow. However, I've no problems with It's us, by and large, all of a sudden, dance attention on someone, More than one of the passengers was hurt and A person may waive their right to vote. | |
| Apr 22, 2014 at 18:53 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @rogermue: I heard that one in the school playground over 50 years ago. Since having the luxury of searching the Internet in more recent times, I've discovered that relatively few versions include the "New York Accent" boids instead of birds, so I'm guessing it didn't necessarily originate in the Big Apple. | |
| Apr 22, 2014 at 18:19 | comment | added | rogermue | @FumbleFingers Where does one find such funny poems? | |
| Apr 22, 2014 at 17:57 | comment | added | Gary's Student | @FumbleFingers I love it!!! You have surely earned your poetic license (perhaps even a poetic PhD.) | |
| Apr 22, 2014 at 17:53 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @Gary: I've never really believed two wrongs make a right, but if you have enough "wrongs", they can collectively justify themselves. So this version gets my vote of approval: Spring is sprung, de grass is ris. I wonders where dem boidies is. Dey say de boids is on de wing. Ain't that absoid! De little wings is on de boid! | |
| Apr 22, 2014 at 17:36 | answer | added | ermanen | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 22, 2014 at 17:29 | comment | added | Gary's Student | It is just a matter of pattern recognition or the lack of it. When we hear the same phrase often enough, we accept it instantly. If we hear: "the bird is on the wings", we can instantly recognize something is WRONG. We don't need to stop and ponder that a bird has two wings and the phrase may be right. | |
| Apr 22, 2014 at 17:22 | comment | added | John Lawler | People who can do this are said to speak the language natively. This doesn't mean, however, that they can distinguish grammatical rules from politeness rules or socioeconomic class rules without instruction. As we demonstrate all the time here on ELU. | |
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| Apr 22, 2014 at 16:56 | history | asked | Andrew Mao | CC BY-SA 3.0 |