Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> (pedants like me who use "whom," things like "whose," etc. remain)
Since when has "whose" been pedantic?
> If you don't like cases, sure!
I personally find cases indispensable. :-) I think I've had a grand
total of *one* conlang without cases.
> And yet native
> English speakers may make any number of "mistakes" (depending on how
> prescriptive your grammar is) but they rarely make the kinds of
> article-use errors that these foreign speakers do.
Probably because prescriptivists have never bothered to make rules about
articles. I'm sure that if they had, we'd be making lots of "errors".
:-)