Talk:Kylo Ren's Shuttle/@comment-27666888-20160807090304/@comment-454133-20170127160545

In gradeschool my English teachers taught us kids many, many rules we later learned to actively, even aggressively disobey. English is very much a language of disobeying strict rules in pursuit of your goals, and figuring out which rules to uphold to avoid poor communication or poor image. Breaking some rules is mandatory either for better communication or a more casual, less stuck-up or convoluted demeanor, and trying to follow all the rules can be a mess. Breaking the wrong rules is somehow worse.

Mainly this is because English is a mess that resulted from centuries of being conquered by different cultures, absorbing words from them while shedding older rules, etc... and that process isn't done yet. It's a language in flux, with a lot that works and a lot that simply doesn't. The "Queen's English" is not the perfect language we were taught to believe in.

Or in other words, it gets so, so much worse. "that that" is your friend, do not fear it; the night holds darker terrors. :D