Anti-Prescriptivist

Dear Joe . (Warning: NITPBBEGOL*) *Not interesting to people bored by English grammar or linguistics.

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drelmo

Why vote?

... don't be surprised if you blitz out and someone knocks you down. I'm Pro-Gay Rights. I don't like Gay-Marriage on the technicality of my understanding of the word's definition (I'm a prescriptivist), but I support all the rights and maybe the definition should /change/. I'm Pro-Free Speech. I don't think that anyone should control another's thoughts or words–even when they hurt–so long as they ...

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kittiethedragon

A Spelling Pet Peeve of Mine

... would have you believe. I fall in line more with the descriptivists these days on a philosophical level, but when it comes to little details like this I still have many of my old, hard-learned prescriptivist tendencies. "Yeah" is a common informal synonym for "yes." I think we're all used to saying it with some regularity. "Yay" is a common ejaculation*, and is a synonym for "hooray." * ...

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oldsilenus

Oh my god SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP.

... annoying I can't even get halfway through the article. Holy fuck I want to claw my eyes out. ETA: Here's the first bit of my paper. I'm going to fail, y/y? I got over my prescriptivist phase around the time I hit high school. For a while I was a pretty precocious kid, and by “precocious kid” I mean “annoying twerp”, always trying to rearrange my sentences to avoid have a preposition at the ...

Tags: college is hard english

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rex_dart

Bringlish, Amglish, chocolate, strawberry....

...?" at restaurants in the next five years, you know? And I've been saying "y'all" forever, yet I've never lived south of the Mason/Dixon line. Heck, I've never lived south of New Jersey. I guess the prescriptivist / descriptivist sides of me are waging war at the moment. What do you think? And is any of this similar for you Brits who use American terms or phrasings for British things? Cheers!

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