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You're the only one who has come anywhere close to describing how language actually works, WillyPete. Good on ya, mate!
The point is that you, and so many others have been castigated for "butchering grammar" when you weren't doing that at all. The "rules" these folks thought you were breaking were most often not even rules of English. Fledermaus, and at least one other, zyzygy, can't grasp this concept. And the fear mightily that their long held notions are false.
The fearfullness is not terrific. A quote, by the way.