My toddler just told me 'if I was a bird' and I contemplate if it is even worth correcting him at this point. The subjunctive mood is dying a slow, painful death in the streets of casual conversation. Every time someone says 'if I was' instead of 'if I were,' a small part of my soul withers away. We are losing the ability to distinguish between reality and hypothetical state. This is not just about being a pedantic prescriptivist anymore. Linguistic precision is the only thing keeping us from total chaos. My exhausion level is too high for this linguistic decay.