What grammar/linguistic rules have you seen used (or used yourself) by other people that are invented and not official in the language they are used in?
This will be my last post under this name for reasons, but I wanted to do a question I've been interested in asking so it can be useful in a way (inspired by the person I have interacted with the most on here who says she follows all the mentioned rules as per the new year).
Once in a blue moon, someone I know will mention they have some kind of linguistic rule they invented in order to make understanding them easier.
The four examples that come to the top of my head:
- A couple of people I know are on the spectrum and noticed it's sometimes difficult to tell when someone is done speaking, which makes it difficult for them to not interrupt people. To prevent people from having to experience that with them, they made a rule, which a number of us follow now, where they are officially done talking when something they're saying becomes divisible by 17 words, choosing 17 because it's the number of syllables in a haiku.
- Based on this, anothe
The one I am using is. It's easy to get into and doesn't block everything in sight. Although let's just say I just discovered just now I mistook this one for another one and signed up for the wrong one (I went to make an account on another one for modding). Brb, will return on a new one and hope nobody tries getting the wrong idea (had a few people try speaking for my intent without my authority earlier).
Corpse flowers
Simon Whistler has a few, though they have sponsors.
It depends on the sport. You can't just add a few and say "there".