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> Any other interpretation of the debate would be paradox, because, a descriptivist would have to describe it as prescriptive if many users think it's prescrip
by vladf 9y ago
> Any other interpretation of the debate would be paradox, because, a descriptivist would have to describe it as prescriptive if many users think it's prescriptive.
Why is this a paradox? Why is prescriptivity a result of the actions of "many users"?
- posterboy 9y agogee, I have a hard time reading that myself now. Descriptivists would have to describe themselves as prescriptive, if many users think they are being prescriptive. -- Is that better? The irony is: Many users think the editors are descriptive, because that's what the editors prescribe. I really don't see a way out of this. Also see the comment I left on the sibling.