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Originally Posted by pruss
Much of good standard contemporary English grammar would have sounded terrible a couple of hundred years ago. These things change. There is a value in their not changing too fast--change impedes communication between generations--but the fact of change should be accepted.
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Certainly grammar changes - English didn't have a "continuous present" at the time that Shakespeare was writing, for example ("I am going", "you are reading", etc.) - but there's a difference between grammatical changes and not knowing the difference between "its" and "it's"; the latter is just dumb ignorance which there's absolutely no excuse or reason for.