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> A more at weight pedant would work on changing the style guide. Language pedantry is deprecated in Wikipedia. WP is resolutely descriptivist. I regret that;
by denton-scratch 4y ago
> A more at weight pedant would work on changing the style guide.
Language pedantry is deprecated in Wikipedia. WP is resolutely descriptivist.
I regret that; I'm fully on-board with the notion that language changes. But I'm not OK with the idea that there are no rules at all. Humpty Dumpty was wrong; English is not a language where any string of words could have any meaning.
This is especially important in an encylopaedia.
- prepend 4y agoI agree that there are rules. I think the subject in this article is not following the rules.