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He didn't attack arguments based on usage, just outdated usage. The point of syntax is to be understood, not to prove you are educated. I'd hope you know what I
by dazmax 14y ago
He didn't attack arguments based on usage, just outdated usage. The point of syntax is to be understood, not to prove you are educated. I'd hope you know what I mean when I say 'different than'. Language is going to change no matter what; being a prescriptivist means leading a significantly more annoyed life.
- zeteo 14y agoAll usage is outdated to some degree. Last year's buzzwords are this year's forgotten fancies.
- nollidge 14y ago> Last year's buzzwords are this year's forgotten fancies. Some of them, yes. A great many are not. Taking your "last year" to be poetic rather than literal: -gate is cliche, "meme" is totally a thing now, "my bad" has diffused into informal communication all over Anglophonia, lolcat-speak still has everybody's great-aunt snorting at her Facebook wall, texting acronyms are well-known to everyone, word truncation + s is on its way to becoming totes ubiqs, etc. Not to mention you're using a pretty useless definition of "outdated" if it includes literally everything.