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> Prescriptivist/prescriptivism is afaik the usual term. It is but it was the "correct" part attached to prescriptivism they'd be mocking because that is not h
by zimpenfish 2y ago
> Prescriptivist/prescriptivism is afaik the usual term.
It is but it was the "correct" part attached to prescriptivism they'd be mocking because that is not how linguists and grammarians work (they are descriptivists and fond of making fun of prescriptivists.)
- mplanchard 2y agoOh yeah lol I should have put it in quotes, but by the time I thought about it I was past the edit window! C'est la vie, I'll take the mockery.