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This sort of anti-intellectualism is the perfect antidote for those who claim that improper grammar is nothing more than evidence of language "evolving."
by MindBeams 2y ago
This sort of anti-intellectualism is the perfect antidote for those who claim that improper grammar is nothing more than evidence of language "evolving."
- Aardwolf 2y agoI think many grammar rules are not intellectual but just randomly evolved conventions. E.g. some English language rule says that a comma or ending period of a non-quoted sentence goes inside the quotes if there's something quoted at the end of that sentence. That rule feels anti-intellectual to me, as if there's some misunderstanding of how hierarchical placement in one-dimensional space works (since something that's not being quoted is being put inside quotes)
- NegativeLatency 2y agoSpelling used to be more fluid and up to the writer/printer. Printers would also use different spellings as a mechanism to change the line width and otherwise format text to their liking. https://www.ruf.rice.edu/~kemmer/Histengl/spelling.html https://www.ruf.rice.edu/~kemmer/Histengl/spelling.html
- milesrout 2y agoThat "rule" is the rule in America but not elsewhere. Please break it. It is stupid.
- theelous3 2y agoWhat is more intellectual about wanting to complicate the language for one reason, versus wanting to simplify it for another?