[ryandrake]

I think OP was just pointing out the irony of complaining about high school English questions while making a high school-level English usage mistake (would of vs. would have)

[dymk]

English prescriptivists are even more ironic-er. If they'd of bothered to take even an undergraduate level course in linguistics, they'd understand how wasteful a pastime "grammar nazi" is.

[kube-system]

"Would of" is just is a misspelling of "would've".

[lovich]

Irregardless of that fact, if enough people misuse a word or grammatical construct long enough, it becomes de facto correct

[kube-system]

> Irregardless

I see what you did there. And you’re right, but “would have” is not there yet, it’s just a common mistake like swapping your/you’re.

[HeyLaughingBoy]

Sure. I'll give it a couple hundred years.

[lovich]

Can you define a couple of hundred? Just to be clear I am a language descriptivist, and am looking for a timeline I can hang you on for being wrong. Also to preface, if you pick a timeline older then the phrase “the bees knees”I will think you are irrelevant, and if you can pick a younger phrase but I can show language evolution on top of that, I will also consider you irrelevant.

[HeyLaughingBoy]

Just to be safe, make it an even millennium.