nptatall

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   by nptatall 10y ago

   Point me towards a single modern academic prescriptive linguist with publicly-available writing in english, and I will be grateful and fascinated. Even just a single modern prescriptive linguist, without any of those other qualifiers. I wo
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   by nptatall 10y ago

   > Colour me also more than slightly intrigued by this idea of being from the "actual Mid-Atlantic"- which was an ocean last time anybody checked. That is exactly why "mid-atlantic accent" is called that[0]. It&#x27
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   by nptatall 10y ago

   The first thing is obviously playful hyperbole, but I don't know about "childish". But, regarding your second quote... if you bring up the idea of a way of speaking being "better" or "worse" to a modern li
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   by nptatall 10y ago

   > The entire concept of an elocution class is wildly offensive to most of the modern linguists I know Emphasis mine. Are you a linguist?