There is no English Grammar Institute to tell us what is right and wrong, so English grammar is necessarily descriptive and not prescriptive.
It may annoy you, and you may be convinced that you are right and others are "wrong" but if a substantial body of people use English in a way that you dislike then it's just tough shit I'm afraid.
> But then "Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?".
Because nobody actually talks like that, that's why.
You don't speak Elizabethan English, or Regency English, or late Saxon, or Old English, but you presumably don't think those are "wrong" - why do you think Estuary English is wrong; could it be gasp because you're in a different linguistic group? /me clutches pearls...
It may annoy you, and you may be convinced that you are right and others are "wrong" but if a substantial body of people use English in a way that you dislike then it's just tough shit I'm afraid.
> But then "Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?".
Because nobody actually talks like that, that's why.
You don't speak Elizabethan English, or Regency English, or late Saxon, or Old English, but you presumably don't think those are "wrong" - why do you think Estuary English is wrong; could it be gasp because you're in a different linguistic group? /me clutches pearls...