&gt; By your logic if I see the word &quot;latte&quot; and I pronounce it &quot;lat&quot; because there is no &quot;eh&quot; sound at the end of words in English then that&#x27;s perfectly fine and people should just deal with it.<p>You are just a single person, so it probably wouldn&#x27;t be seen as correct. However, if a large number of people within some geographical area did the same thing, then it&#x27;d be a (correct) feature of that dialect.<p>I never said that any feature of any person&#x27;s ideolect is always considered &quot;correct&quot;. I said that features in the English spoken by &quot;a large enough portion of English speakers&quot; are.<p>Languages aren&#x27;t ideal systems that native speakers attempt to conform to, languages are simply what is actually spoken.(<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Idiolect#Idiolect_and_language" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Idiolect#Idiolect_and_language</a>)<p>&gt; You seem to be arguing correction has no place. That&#x27;s pretty indefensible.<p>No, I&#x27;m arguing that correcting people <i>when they&#x27;re not wrong</i> has no place.