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His essay about descriptive and prescriptive approaches to dictionary writing changed my life. If you read the essay, you'll see it's actually about much more
by babyshake 18y ago
His essay about descriptive and prescriptive approaches to dictionary writing changed my life.
If you read the essay, you'll see it's actually about much more than that.
- fallentimes 18y agoCould you please link to it (I tried finding it via google)? Edit: I found this: http://is.gd/2CpH http://is.gd/2CpH Is that the one you were talking about?
- jraines 18y ago[edit] -- That's it. I think the version in "Consider the Lobster", which is called "Authority and American Usage" is a bit longer, though It's my second favorite essay of all time -- after DFW's "E Unibus Pluram"[1], which is television and, more broadly, the modern life of spectation. [1] From "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again"