09-29-2019, 07:34 AM
When I read a book I prefer the language to follow official rules. When I write a book I write how people talk, and the same person can talk different from sentence to sentence. That includes they as a singular gender neutral noun or pronoun or whatever. Language is music with guidelines and riffing on and off them. I think knowing the rules of language is more important than using them. And not knowing all of them is a healthy kind of Ignorance. I don't think innovation is best always when it's intentional.