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Re:The Elements of Style [pdf] by Sparrowhawk21 on Monday August 28, 2023 @05:54AM (#37291822)
Exactly, beware prescriptivist hogwash.
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Re:The Elements of Style [pdf] by ryanklee on Monday August 28, 2023 @09:55AM (#37294007)
I hope that someday this message makes it into the primary schools. It'd be nice to have a future generation with a significantly lower count of idiotic language pedants.
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Re:The Elements of Style [pdf] by hgsgm on Monday August 28, 2023 @12:32PM (#37296723)
The paradox of descriptivism is that it can't proscribe prescriptivism.
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Re:The Elements of Style [pdf] by msla on Monday August 28, 2023 @07:05PM (#37301496)
That is not what descriptivism means.
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