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You use hard words to say simple thing. This cost a lot of mind power. Why?
by oefnak 4y ago
You use hard words to say simple thing. This cost a lot of mind power. Why?
- rzzzt 4y ago"Sometimes words, you no need use but need need for talk talk." There are prescriptive and descriptive schools of linguistics, with one trying to gently nudge/direct/drive/correct the use of a language, while the other concentrates on documenting it as it happens in the wild.
- School-Cotton 4y ago> There are prescriptive and descriptive schools of linguistics That’s not true. There are no “prescriptivists” whatsoever in the modern science of linguistics.
- rzzzt 4y agoInteresting to hear! What happened to those guys?
- School-Cotton 4y agoWhat guys? Did they ever exist? Can you name a prominent “prescriptivist linguist”? I’m pretty sure there was never a “prescriptivist school” of linguistics, or if there was it was never mainstream. There have been prescriptive grammarians of course but AFAIK they never called themselves “linguists”.
- rzzzt 4y agoThis is definitely my ignorance showing, so you'll have to bear with me, but what is the difference between grammarian and linguist? I did find a linguistics course note which does seem to indicate that such a debate existed, even if in the past: https://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/ling001/prescription.html https://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/ling001/prescription.html
- YurgenJurgensen 4y agoI have no idea what your point is here. Which, I guess, proves mine.