Language is a toolkit to communicate ideas, and a toolkit frozen in glass is a useless toolkit.

You need to swap out that hammer when it starts getting damaged, or put back a screwdriver when you find out you need it again, or add new tools when you find that the tools you have now aren’t fit to purpose.

And sure, there’s some loose screws at the bottom of the bag, but they don’t harm anything, and very occasionally they come in useful.

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    25 days ago

    I suspect it should also use a semicolon instead of the comma? Or only if they left out the “because” (which itself should start with an apostrophe).

    I admit my grammar is weak.

    OK, OK, I’ll take off my prescriptivist hat!