• 7bicycles [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    You know what my biggest problem with descriptivists precriptivists is? What is "correct" always coincides exactly to what they learned in school or university from 15 - 20. It's never anything else. Never in like 20.000 years of human history did we nail language except for that timeframe, and never will it happen again. what a coinkidink.

    • Firestorm Druid@lemmy.zip
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      4 months ago

      Prescriptivists you mean. Descriptivists describe language phenomena as they are without passing judgment on their validity whereas prescriptivists have certain assumptions on what constitutes parts of the language to be valid and prescribe meaning to them

      • 7bicycles [he/him]
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        4 months ago

        there's a joke here about me rejecting the notion of what prescriptivist and descriptivist mean

        but yes, thanks, got some wires crossed there

        • Firestorm Druid@lemmy.zip
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          4 months ago

          My comment was more so meant to prove to myself that I didn't mix anything up and still remember the definitions lol

      • 7bicycles [he/him]
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        3 months ago

        I'd respect that a lot more on the basis of you have to have argued yourself into that one in some way that isn't being subservient to your elementary school teachers authority at 45