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Being wrong continuously doesn't make it right.
"Have" is a transative verb and fits the same as "I shouldn't go" or "I shouldn't fuck this whole sentence up"
"Of" is a preposition and cannot go after "should", and only after "of" in sentences like "He is not of this earth, so he doesn't know basic grammar"
If non-native speakers are correcting you, you're just too lazy to learn
Wrong? You wanna talk about wrong?
The purpose of language is to facilitate the exchange of information of various forms between two parties. So long as mutual intelligibility is maintained, there is no "wrong". The exception however is that in taking the time to correct someone, you're reducing information density, and making that exchange of information less or ineffective. If you want to talk about wrong, I'd say that'd be the person using language for ineffective communication, wouldn't you?
Sit on your high horse all you want, but real living people speak how they speak, and generally write in a similar manner. Or maybe they don't. Or maybe they vary from context to context. So long as the information communicated in a mutually intelligible way, it's correct.
I will say, however, that I'm not the person you were replying to. Lexical prescriptionism is just annoying and both poor etiquette as well as a malicious use of speech.