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Old May 07, 2009, 09:21 AM
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My opinion is that it is acceptable. However, earlier in the Spanish language it wasn't. I feel like many grammatical rules that used to be enforced, are now being less stringent. As far as linguistics, this happens with any language, including English. Languages change over time, that's a fact, and that's my opinion on the impersonal "se," that now one can say "tu" and have it be globally (at least to some extent) acceptable.

For example, I went all through grammar classes learning a rule such as:
Darse cuenta de que....(whatever may follow). That de must be included, or it's ungrammatical. Now it's acceptable, and more importantly grammatical, to say simply "darse cuenta que."

So my argument is that of how a language changes throughout time. And that's the explanation for this very case. This case jumps into linguistics and language variability (and changing.)
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