[Grammar] "had went" and "has ran away"

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jutfrank said:
Is it not time we stopped thinking of natural non-standard grammar as 'bad'? That seems to me an awful mistake, academically and politically.
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That's why I put the word "bad" in quotes.
 
bubbha said:
That's why I put the word "bad" in quotes.
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bubbha—I'm sorry if it seemed my post #15 was an attack directed at you personally. It really wasn't.
 
jutfrank said:
Is it not time we stopped thinking of natural non-standard grammar as 'bad'? That seems to me an awful mistake, academically and politically.
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It's bad logic.
 
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