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> any more than you would call Jessica "from church" ("Hey, is From Church coming over tonight?") That's not in common use, so wouldn't fall under descriptive
by cma 1y ago
> any more than you would call Jessica "from church" ("Hey, is From Church coming over tonight?")
That's not in common use, so wouldn't fall under descriptive linguistics. No English speaker was puzzled at whether Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code was about someone else from Vinci's code. It's an established convention at this point.
- kragen 1y agoThe established convention is to use the given name "Leonardo", just as with Raphael, Michelangelo, and little Donato ("Donatello"). Dan Brown is also not an authority on the descriptive linguistics of 16th-century Italian.
- cma 1y agoThe Dan Brown mention was about descriptive, showing it's popularly understood using a popular book, not prescriptive.