>>51206813english speakers, especially online, thrive on bastardizing the language because its not a problem for us to understand each other. if you genuinely cannot comprehend english unless it is completely grammatically perfect, this will become a problem for you not just online, but in social situations that arent business related. a ton of english classes teach stick-up-the-ass "proper" english that literally no one uses, so insults aside i really suggest you look into spending more time practicing in a less formal sense. i love linguistics and teach informal english to those who have learned it strictly textbook and wish to sound less robotic, but i also know the language formally (as the child of two english majors, i had little choice growing up). i just dont go around speaking like a professional service worker online, and if thats how youre expecting to encounter it, you will find yourself tripped up by things like this pretty easily. im not one of the many here who has a problem with the very matter of people being esl itself, but when esls are pretentious enough to try to shit on others like this, especially native speakers, i cant resist jumping into the ring and giving them a lesson in humility. you really arent as fluent as you think you are.
