Ok, that was long but your last sentence says it all. The OP seems to be arguing that there IS NO SUCH THING as stunted linguistic and communicative abilities.

Maybe I’m just old but I find it difficult sometimes to understand people who prefer to use words seemingly at random and pay no attention to any rules I’ve learned. I like to think I have a pretty good grasp of American English but when I’m not certain about something and I try to look up the proper way to phrase it, I find five different answers from five different sources all quoting, I guess, from the accepted grammar of the time in which they were taught. I used to just go to my old English text book, but now it just seems it of date. If you don’t want to just slang your way through life it’s difficult to follow the rules when they’re don’t seem to be any.

Right and now everything I learned is obsolete.

So why teach English at all? People could just make it all up theirself.

I’m sure he’ll get this done before November, then it’s on to world peace!

And doesn’t this go both ways? One of my favorite sayings is: a friend is someone who when you’ve made a fool of yourself, doesn’t think you’ve done a permanent job of it. Perhaps Jack Black could forgive his best friend and move along. Perhaps make a joint statement at the next event.

But not at every place right? Hell, I have one car right now that still has a warranty and they give me a rental car. It’s awesome service but you don’t get that from a smaller place.

Um, that’s a cobblestone street. And it goes on the ground. There is no asphalt involved in the construction of a cobblestone street. It’s possible the ground has settled. But I call on you to show me anything in the two pictures that is identical. Again, not saying it isn’t the same place, just that I don’t see anything in the photos that I can see that something has simply aged, instead of completely changed.

Well I was trying to find one thing that was exactly the same. The ground is level in the top photo. The curve in the curb is different. One building has a step down in the doorway, but not the other. The wall between the two buildings appears to be wider in one photo. I’m not saying it isn’t, I’m just saying as far as I’m concerned, it could just be two very similar structures at two different times.

There are so many problems with that article it isn’t even funny.

Here are a few:

1. It references the UK. The US and China are the biggest polluters. Meaning most cars are charged using fossil fuels and coal.
2. The article states it is a challenge to convert the DC from the car to the AC if the grid.
3. It seems to completely forget that a car has to be charged before it can discharge. The author seems to think thinking can solve it all.
4. A car that is used to charge the grid is LOSING the charge it needs to drive, which is the primary purpose of the car.
5. No matter how you slice it, some car owners simply can’t use an electric vehicle. People who live in apartments for instance.

The answer isn’t electric cars. The answer is LESS cars.

Doesn’t look like the same place to me. More like two similar pictures of different places.