Of course that’s a myth you can’t even dress up in the invisibility cloak of science anymore. There are people who think everything native speakers say must be grammatically correct, when all they’re doing is faithfully copying the way most of the people around them talk, which isn’t necessarily correct usage. Still others say a native has a better vocabulary. But most native speakers are too busy to think much about language, and tend to use the same words and phrases all the time, whereas non-natives, who move back and forth between two languages, are always looking for new words and
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