@thias @stephstephking
Ah, I misread/misunderstood “globish” on the first pass: I took you to mean corporate gobbledeygook / business-speak, but I think you’re talking about English as a global lingua franca…?
That now understood, you may misunderstand what English depts teach. It’s not primarily grammar, and “pretty” isn’t the central idea at all. It has to do with clarity: not just of expression, but of •seeing•. Having a point matters in any language.