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I can only imagine they're downvoting because they've had a better education than me, or paid more attention in class, or read the Wikipedia entry ten minutes before me.
Exactly! I mean, some people (looking at you downvoters) learnt that during their education. But I (we?) didn't, and this has been a really interesting find for me.
I genuinely love learning about linguistic weirdness, I just don't know a lot about it. Or have many occasions to learn.