• Mario_Dies.wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    You just had chose to footnote your one line comment because of language erosion writer’s autonomy

    Nice try. Fun fact: Language prescriptivism is at best classist, at worst white nationalist behavior. Take that as you will, and have fun on my blocklist.

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      1 year ago

      Descriptivism is a vestige of pre-industrial society. Prescriptivism is a necessity of universal literacy. Language evolves over time, and one of the ways in which it evolves is how it evolves. Also, if you believe in linguistic descriptivism, you are also required to believe in a descriptivist system of weights and measures, or vice versa, or you’re a hypocrite. Thank you for attending my TED talk, I am not taking questions.

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      People hate when you say this but you’re right, prescriptivism is a fucking disgusting practice and anyone who supports it needs to take a long hard look at the rest of their opinions and why they hold them.