I am foreigner. It is normal spoken english in UK where I lived. Sorry for not using "proper cambridge english" here.
This isn't directed at you specifically. I am making a broader connection to the need for higher education even when people feel it has no immediately obvious value. Sometimes the things learned in school are more subtle than what's on the syllabus.
* I do not consider HN forum to be place for formal english
* I could think harder, and run my post through some tool to polish grammar. Why not: I consider this low effort post, and proper grammar sounds like AI generated content.
* I was not being defensive
* I am non native speaker, I got advanced english cambridge cert from private school lomg time ago . Complete with proper accent.
* when I came to UK I got relentlessly mocked for "posh english"! It took me a few years to drop that and speak "normally".
* I get the irony from your comment (I love "double negative" joke from IT Crowd). But that argument was valid maybe 10 years ago. After “Dear Colleague” letter, clawn show during covid, and recent raise of AI; I consider this topic irelevant. Now university is just a scam on poor people.
* I have research background, know how academia works. Job and pay wise it is a joke.
> no immediately obvious value
> Sometimes the things learned in school are more
Academia has no monopol on this, you can get it outside of academia. Millions of free books. Several PhDs ready to teach for $20/hour...
If anything, academia relentlessly kills independent critical thinking. You have to agree with teacher to get credit and to pass, that is learnet at school.