Looks like the author noticed and changed the title to "Direnv - and reinventing the wheel with envloader". Going by the TLD I initially thought that he's from Germany, but no, "de" are just the last two letters of his surname...
I think that these types of errors are made mainly by native English speakers, as they learn and practice their language mostly 'by ear', without having to think much about the logic behind it.
And this is as much a logical error as grammatical one.
As a (barely) recovery grammar festidian I highly recommend checking out this video by Dr Geoff Lindsey [1]
TLDW: some fascinating realignment of perspective from a linguist about such things [^2], and the - frankly moderately mind-blowing - revelation that despite caring about language I've been gleefully pronouncing "covert" 'wrong' my whole life (and will likely continue to do so)
As an aside: despite caring about "correct" use of language I've always been willing to frivolously split infinitives - it's against the rules, but I think quite an effective evolution of language
Good to have linguists around reminding us to boldly go explore :)
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Shouldn't have*
That's one of my least favourite errors
Looks like the author noticed and changed the title to "Direnv - and reinventing the wheel with envloader". Going by the TLD I initially thought that he's from Germany, but no, "de" are just the last two letters of his surname...
I think that these types of errors are made mainly by native English speakers, as they learn and practice their language mostly 'by ear', without having to think much about the logic behind it. And this is as much a logical error as grammatical one.
As a (barely) recovery grammar festidian I highly recommend checking out this video by Dr Geoff Lindsey [1]
TLDW: some fascinating realignment of perspective from a linguist about such things [^2], and the - frankly moderately mind-blowing - revelation that despite caring about language I've been gleefully pronouncing "covert" 'wrong' my whole life (and will likely continue to do so)
[1]: https://youtu.be/I6duEGj04Mg
[^2]: edit for clarity: such things being the concept of "normal forms" or rules in language.
As an aside: despite caring about "correct" use of language I've always been willing to frivolously split infinitives - it's against the rules, but I think quite an effective evolution of language
Good to have linguists around reminding us to boldly go explore :)
So true.