i believe in description not proscription. don’t tell me what the english language is or isn’t based on some rules that were made up hundreds of years ago or by the elite of the english intelligentsia. that’s absurdly controlling behavior that you picked up from people who wanted to control you. what’s much more efficient and expedient and useful is to observe how the language around you gets used and code shift with ease. be an english aristocrat or a country bumpkin. if you want to control people, it is demonstrably more effective to coordinate with them that it is to dominate them. or better yet, keep all the tools in your belt and employ them effectively and protemporaneously.