I’m normally logged into the Community so I don’t see the first page. This version looks very different to the one I remember so that was why I read it instead of clicking through.
Do you read grammar, or interpret it? The sentence reads incorrectly, or the grammar is incorrect
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Bill_Janssen
(Wigwam wool socks now on asymmetrical isolation feet!)
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That would of course refer to the grammar itself, not the text. Perhaps it would be best to say, “the text of the sentence does not follow normal English grammar rules.” (Sorry, Jesuit-educated. )
“Syntaks for denne sætning er grammatisk forkert”. This was immediately corrected by my wife to
“Syntaksen for denne sætning er grammatisk forkert” (as Chrome missed out the definite article. “the”)
Of course that was an opportunity for the Norweigian in laws to chime in and remind us that in Norway things are not quite so simple. It was only in 1929 by a single vote in the Norweigan Parliament that the official term for written Norweigian was agreed by statute. That was Bokmål (literally “book tongue”) rather than the Dano-Norwegian of the urban elites. Today written Norweigian has two standards, Bokmål and Nynorsk. Each Norwegian municipality must declare one of the two its official written language, or it can remain “language neutral”. Nynorsk is endorsed by a minority of 27 percent of the municipalities. The written language used in primary schools normally follows the official language of its municipality but it is decided by referendum within the local school district.
I didn’t ask if grammar mistakes were a hanging offence in Norway