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by princeb 1289 days ago
the dialects in australia, NZ, england, US, Canada have a handful of unique idiomatic grammatical structures. never mind the varieties in the british colonies in asia and africa where the native/imported community outnumber british descendants - and im not referring to the colloquial dialects or creoles but the formal english varieties within each country. when you are correcting someone's english, are you correcting a grammatical mistake or a grammatical variety that you're not familiar with? it's fraught with danger.