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Huh, what do they have against it? I could see a linguist considering it too prescriptive, but in this case the whole point is prescribing a particular register
by samirillian 9y ago
Huh, what do they have against it? I could see a linguist considering it too prescriptive, but in this case the whole point is prescribing a particular register of the language for effective communication. But what about the grammarians?
- zimpenfish 9y agoThings like "Don't use the passive voice" whilst using the passive voice in the same paragraph and other egregious grammatical errors sprinkled wildly through the text. Basically the same kind of dumb and wrong prescriptivism the linguists and dictionaryists hate about it.