Proofreading and editing are a part of my job; as a result, I tend to notice linguistic quirks and find them fascinating.
This week, I've gotten several contributions to a document from someone who doesn't add "ed" to words that should have them.
--providing a detail project plan
--follow by completing
-steps are design to mitigate issues
He doesn't have a noticeable accent, either foreign or regional, but I wonder where he's from.
Mebbe. I also wondered about French-Canadian.
He *sounds* American, lives in Cincinatti.
@tyghebright
That makes more sense of course.
Never thought about correlation of writing to linguistics, but now you mention it I've seen it in languages outside of the romantics.