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by LudwigNagasena 307 days ago
> If native speakers say something, then it's grammatically correct.

What if two non-native speakers say something and understand each other?

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That’s a pidgin.
Then they’re having a useful, but not grammatically correct, conversation.
It may be grammatically correct in the dialect they're using.

There's plenty of mutually-intelligible English spoken outside of primarily English-speaking countries which native English speakers would consider ungrammatical, but that's only relative to their own dialect.