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Linguistics

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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.
- 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
  
  there's a joke here about me rejecting the notion of what prescriptivist and descriptivist mean
  but yes, thanks, got some wires crossed there
  
  My comment was more so meant to prove to myself that I didn't mix anything up and still remember the definitions lol
- i think we need more prescriptivists who insist we should all speak toki pona and write in chinese
  
  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
  
  did you mean to reply to someone else? i'm pretty clearly making a joke, albeit with a grain of seriousness.
- Much of the stuff people correct each other on is stuff we all were taught. It just didn't sink in for some.
  Though there are outdated and incorrect ideas (eg "no split infinitives in English" was never correct, but was taught when boomers were in school, and later in less progressive places)

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