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Nah, prescriptivists love writing books saying that a thing almost everybody does - sometimes including themselves - is wrong. Prescriptivist amateurs with stro
by tialaramex 1y ago
Nah, prescriptivists love writing books saying that a thing almost everybody does - sometimes including themselves - is wrong. Prescriptivist amateurs with strong opinions sell reasonably well, publishers are quite fond.
But this is part of a project by academics and the academics abandoned prescriptivism because it's not science. We don't have prescriptivist chemists or physicists either.
- windward 1y agoDo you have any examples of the books?
- tialaramex 1y ago"Eats, Shoots and Leaves" by Lynne Truss or "Her Ladyship's Guide to the Queen's English" by Caroline Taggart would be examples.