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Who decides what's proper English? Non-native speakers? This is a word I've heard almost every day at multiple companies, definitely seems to be on its way to p
by sidibe 3y ago
Who decides what's proper English? Non-native speakers? This is a word I've heard almost every day at multiple companies, definitely seems to be on its way to proper English if it isn't already.
- defrost 3y agoThe completely serious answer is there are multiple approaches. The young American nation fell in lockstep with the Webster approach of a prescriptive dictionary whereby a self appointed gatekeeper decided for others what was and was not correct English. They further pursued this path by embracing the doctrines of Strunk & White in The Elements of Style. Meanwhile, back in the cradle of the English hodgepodge the multi-volume wall lining known as The Oxford English Dictionary took a descriptive path that described English as she is wrote. "Proper English" is a car crash caused by a train wreck of Romance and other languages uttered by survivors wandering about a global incident site. "We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language." ~ Some guy with a green carnation.