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Since this thread isn't going away......
Don't fool yourself into believing that the ability
to speak and write
'within the rules' isn't important to employers.
You could easily find
yourself unemployed!
It is also difficult enough to communicate intended
meanings (this list is a
prime example) using a reasonably well-defined set
of grammatical rules.
Without these rules your 'standard of
intelligibility' would soon be lost
and the language degenerate into babble. Such is
already the case with
certain dialects or slangs where the words may be
English but the meanings
to be communicated can be very obscure for most
English-speaking people.
The comedic example of this was the first Airplane
movie, where the dialog
between two 'ghetto' passengers required subtitles.
(Can anyone say
Ebonics?)
Rick