If you’re speaking it natively and correctly to your own understanding, you’re not speaking it wrong, or unable to speak it. That assertion is asinine on its face. Languages change.
I actually agree with what you’ve written here, but not in this context. This IS a formal context where the recruitment poster in the image isn’t trying to be clever or interesting or funny, which are all valid contexts for different uses of established language rules, they’re just wrong. Additionally the OP comment here wasn’t being rude by offering the correct word for the context, I saw it as offering assistance to someone forming their sentence incorrectly.
*fewer
My only thought reading this. Fewer cops, more people who can write properly.
Thank you. Personal pointless pet peeve.
You need to get hobbies IMO
Too true.
Don’t be a grammar cop.
You can do better, so can Seattle.
Less needless “corrections” that add nothing to conversations. More engaging in conversation
Less being a stickler for no good reason. More being chill for once
Less grammar cops Better communities
Fewer people who care how language works.
More people who can’t speak their own language.
If you’re speaking it natively and correctly to your own understanding, you’re not speaking it wrong, or unable to speak it. That assertion is asinine on its face. Languages change.
Not all change of language is good.
Read 1984 again if forgot why.
lol, there’s layers of irony in this line
Ah, you mean the book about a prescriptivist policy of grammar coming top-down from government, that one?
And how the way that people rebelled was intentionally misuse of the rules in a “you didn’t say I couldn’t use it this way!”, a form of descriptivism
Read 1984, if forget why
Less people enforce arbitrary outdated “rules”
More people let language evolve like the living thing it is
Less people care about prescriptivism outside of formal contexts
More the language reflects reality rather than being left to stagnate and die
I actually agree with what you’ve written here, but not in this context. This IS a formal context where the recruitment poster in the image isn’t trying to be clever or interesting or funny, which are all valid contexts for different uses of established language rules, they’re just wrong. Additionally the OP comment here wasn’t being rude by offering the correct word for the context, I saw it as offering assistance to someone forming their sentence incorrectly.
It’s not a formal context, it’s very obviously written in a breezy and casual style, where attention-grabbing is more important than formalities
The call-response format is short-long in stressing, which gives it a PUNCH that “fewer” would lose as well
Feels more punchy than
Also, it’s not a recruitment poster, it’s a political advocacy poster.
Again I disagree with your assessment and assertions.
Ah yeah, I always use “wanna” in formal context, like all the time
*fewer